MCC tour of India and Ceylon, 1933-1934: Playing Conditions

Reference

MCC/CRI/5/1/15

Date:

1930 - 1934-04-28

Level of description

file

Extent

1 folder

Part of

MCC Tours (MCC/CRI/5/1)

Scope and Content

Correspondence, telegrams and reports relating to the MCC tour of India and Ceylon in 1933-1934. Subjects include lists of payments made by the MCC on the India and Ceylon tour, 1933-1934, copy of constitution and rules for the Board of Control for Cricket in India, minutes of meetings of the Board of Control for Cricket in India which referenced the tour, purchase of clothing for the tour, team selection for the tour and copies of contracts made with M Nichols, L Townsend, A Mitchell, C J Barnett, James Langridge, R J Gregory, H Elliott, E W Clark, discussion on matches on the tour being played on a Sunday, including a letter by Viscount Hailsham, MCC President to the Archbishop of Canterbury about the decision, protests by the Lord's Day Observance Society on the issue of matches being played on a Sunday.

Associations

Board of Control for Cricket in India
Morris Stanley Nichols
Leslie Fletcher Townsend
Arthur Mitchell
Charles John Barnett
James Langridge
Robert James Gregory
Harry Elliott
Edward Winchester Clark
Douglas McGarel Hogg
Lord's Day Observance Society
William Cosmo Gordon Lang

Subject

MCC in India 1933-1934, MCC in Ceylon 1933-1934, clothing, Sunday cricket

Conditions governing access

Open

Language

English

Size

1 folder

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