- ReferenceMCC/CRI/5/1/48
- TitleMCC tour of Australia and New Zealand, 1946-1947: Manager's Letters
- Date1946-02-25 - 1947-05-24
- Level of descriptionfile
- Extent1 folder
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- Scope and ContentCorrespondence, newspaper cuttings, telegrams and reports relating to the MCC tour of Australia and New Zealand in 1946-1947. Subjects include itineraries for the tour, offer of the post of manager for the tour to R Howard, Secretary of Lancashire County Cricket Club, arrangements with New Zealand Cricket Council for the tour, letters between Colonel Rowan Rait Kerr, MCC Secretary and Howard, details of travel and hotel arrangements, ticket pricing for the matches, reports by Howard on the Test Matches with Australia, remarks on an incident involving Brian Sellers and W R Hammond, complaints by Hammond about the umpires for the Test Matches, correspondence regarding an injury to Peter Smith during the tour, report on the pitch for the fifth Test Match against Australia.
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