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Correspondence, memoranda and minutes relating to the sponsorship of the Sunday League by John Player and Sons, compiled by J A Bailey, MCC Assistant Secretary. Subjects include a breakdown of where money from sponsorship would go towards including the players, requests from the sponsors for consideration by the counties, invitations to a press conference in October 1968 to announce John Player and Sons' sponsorship of the Sunday League, correspondence from Pattison-Hughes Catering Limited discussing catering arrangements for the press conference, draft list of possible questions and answers to be asked during the press conference, copy of agenda document for the press conference, draft playing conditions for the Player's County League in 1969, draft rules for the Player's County League in 1969, letters from counties discussing the matches selected for television by the BBC. The file also includes a list of batting and bowling averages for Cheshire County Cricket Club in 1968.

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