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Bound volume, minutes of meetings held at Lord's [1960-1963]. Includes minutes of the Advisory County Cricket Committee (ACCC), minutes of the Board of Control of Test Matches at Home, minutes of the Imperial Cricket Conference (ICC), minutes of first class county captains meeting and minor county captains meeting, minutes of special registration Sub-Committee, notes on first-class umpires meeting, minutes of the meetings of the Test Match ground secretaries, account sheets for Test Season 1960-1963), minutes of amateur status standing committee, minutes of the 1961 cricket enquiry. Items include: New rules for exhibition matches, 20 January 1959 Playing conditions for first-class county matches in 1960, 15 March 1960 Vote by ACCC agreeing to ratify the report by the special committee regarding amateur status, 15 March 1960 Minutes of joint standing advisory press committee, 24 June 1960 Termination of contract between Nottinghamshire and R Subba Row due to not changing payment methods, and Subba Row's announcement that he can no longer afford to play cricket, 19 July 1960 Assessment of worldwide experiments into front foot no balls, 15 July 1960 Special meeting of the English Board of Control to discuss the issue of throwing after feedback from Don Bradman and Australian Board of Control, 14 October 1960 Lengthy debate into the special registration of A A Baig for Somerset, decision that Baig cannot qualify as an amateur, 8 December 1960 Creation of 1961 committee of enquiry to look into the whole structure of first class cricket, 16 November 1960 Playing conditions for first-class matches for 1961, 15 March 1961 Application of special registration for Tom Graveney to play for Worcestershire, rejected, 6 April 1961 Review of the present structure of first-class cricket, 25 April 1961 Memorandum of Tom Graveney's special registration appeal, rejected, 4 May 1961 First accepted proposal for the creation of a knock-out competition by 1961 cricket enquiry, 16 June 1961 Consideration of the position of South Africa Cricket Association, after South Africa Government's withdrawal from the Commonwealth, 19 July 1961 Playing conditions for first class matches in 1962, 15 November 1962 Interim report of 1961 enquiry committee, November 1961 First proposals for the make up and Laws of the knock-out competition, 20 December 1961 Resolution by 1961 cricket enquiry that recommendation should go to the ACCC that broken-time payments should be scrapped and that the amateur status should be abolished, 8 February 1961 Re-draft of the special registration rules for county cricket, 15 February 1962 Commission by the ACCC to 1961 cricket enquiry to draft a memorandum on the abolishment of amateurs, 14 March 1962 Draft memorandum for the abolishment of amateurs produced by 1961 cricket enquiry for ACCC and MCC Committee to accept, 29 May 1962 Agreement between MCC and Yorkshire on the splitting of financial rewards from the MCC of the 1962-1963 MCC Tour to Australia and New Zealand, 18 June 1962 Full amateur status memorandum sent to all first class counties, May 1962 All Test Match nations to implement experimental throwing Laws, 18 July 1962 Agreement by the ACCC "that all players in first-class county cricket shall in future be called 'cricketers'..." 26 November 1962 Playing conditions for 1963, 26 November 1962 Rules and playing conditions for new Gillette sponsored knock-out competition scheduled to start in 1964, 26 November 1962 Report of faster pitches Sub-Committee, January 1963

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