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Correspondence, memoranda and questionnaires relating to changes in the Laws of Cricket between 1970 and 1974, compiled by S C Griffith, MCC Secretary. Includes playing conditions for the MCC tour of Australia in 1974-1975, list of questions compiled by Gordon Ross for an interview Ross conducted with Griffith for the Wisden Almanack in 1974 about revisions to the Laws of Cricket, suggestions to changes in the laws from Harold Gimblett, Jack Robertson, Cyril Washbrook, New Zealand Cricket Council, West Indies Cricket Board of Control and the Australian Cricket Board, copy of pamphlet produced by the National Cricket Association explaining experimental laws and conditions, copies of questionnaires compiled by E W Swanton of The Cricketer for Griffith, relating to an experiment in the leg before wicket law where a batsman could not be out LBW to any delivery that pitched outside the off stump, provided that he had to offer a shot at the ball (the results of the questionnaire were published in the November 1970 edition of The Cricketer). The file contains questionnaires and replies on this matter from A P E Knott, John Langridge, P H Parfitt, Ray Illingworth, J C Laker, B A Johnston, Jim Parks, C G A Paris, G Boycott, E R Dexter, Pat Pocock, K F Barrington, Alex Bannister, T W Graveney, R T Simpson, J T Ikin, D J Brown.

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