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Correspondence, minutes, reports and newspaper cuttings relating to the relationship between the Test and County Cricket Board and the cricket press, compiled by S C Griffith, Test and County Cricket Board Secretary. Includes requests for seasonal press passes, report on criticism of press facilities at cricket grounds by the Cricket Writers' Club, correspondence with Kent County Cricket Club relating to a court case between Ray Illingworth, Alan Knott, Sunday Express and D C S Compton, arrangements for the use of the press box at Lord's, reports by B L D'Oliveira on cricket in South Africa during apartheid, request for the Sunday Times to retract statements made in an article criticising the Headingley pitch used during the England vs. Australia Test match, list of press medallion holders in 1972 and 1973 [allowing them access to all Test venues], article by E M Wellings criticising the decision for MCC to play in Kanpur as part of their tour of India in 1972-1973, and articles responding to Wellings, confirmation from Griffith that the MCC Library was being moved to the Reception Building at Lord's, invitations for the presentation of Sir Donald Bradman's portrait at Lord's, article on the work of the Test and County Cricket Board between 1968 and 1973 for publication in The Times newspaper, information for the press regarding the West Indies tour of England in 1973 including an itinerary and list of hotel accommodation, edits by Griffith of articles on cricket published in Sports Illustrated magazine, article on J A Bailey following his appointment as Secretary of MCC, biographies of the Pakistan team which toured England in 1974.

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