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Correspondence, minutes, agendas and reports relating to meetings of the MCC World Cricket Committee between 2006-2009, compiled by J P Stephenson, MCC Assistant Secretary (Cricket and Estates). Includes minutes and agenda papers, a presentation by MCC on proposals for a World Test Championship and comments from Anil Kumble and M D Crowe, letter from Warren Deutrom, Chief Executive of Cricket Ireland, relating to support for associate nations such as Ireland to obtain Test status, paper by M D Crowe entitled 'Test Cricket Must Fight Back', paper by Ali Bacher on the impact of the Indian Premier League entitled 'World Cricket faces one of the greatest challenges in its history', results of the Federation of International Cricketers' Associations (FICA) survey for 2008, results of a survey of 'Australian, state and rookie cricketers' conducted by the Australian Cricketers' Association, results of the New Zealand Cricket Players' Association survey for 2008-2009, copy of a report on the umpire decision review system for the International Cricket Council (ICC) Cricket Committee, paper for the World Cricket Committee on the promotion of the MCC Spirit of Cricket, reports by the ICC, umpires, coaches, players and broadcasters on the trial of the decision review system, summary of decisions reviewed in the Sri Lanka vs. India Test series in August 2008, minutes of a meeting at Lord's to discuss coloured cricket balls in 2009, discussion of the 'switch hit' stroke played by K P Pietersen, papers relating to the Kolpak ruling, handwritten notes on the usage of light metres, paper by Timothy Noakes and Kerith Aginsky of the Sports Science Institute of South Africa entitled 'Why it is difficult to detect an illegally bowled cricket delivery with either the naked eye or usual two-dimensional video analysis' discussing the detection of a cricket throw, paper by Alexander Fergusson of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Imperial College London relating the use of different coloured cricket balls, paper by Steve Hammett and Peter Thompson entitled 'Perceived speed: The effect of luminance and contrast and its implications for cricket', updates on a research project by Imperial College London in relation to the No ball Law.

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