Bound volume, minutes of meetings held at Lord's [1927-1934]. 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, minutes of first class county captains meeting and minor county captains meeting, account sheet of Test Match seasons 1929-1933, minutes of special Sub-Committee appointed to consider high scoring and the Laws of Cricket, newspaper clippings advertising MCC annual general meetings, meetings of minor counties, meetings of county secretaries and tour press releases.
Items include:
A standardised size of cricket balls, 21 February 1927
Written into Law that there shall be a set amount of 28 matches in the County Championship, 27 April 1928
Proposal by Thomas Higson of Lancashire, to remove control of MCC Tours away from MCC to English Board of Control, met with comprehensive backlash, 27 April 1928
Playing conditions for Australia's Tour of England 1930, 1928-1930
Report of special Sub-Committee on cricket reforms, 26 April 1929
Special instructions to first class umpires, 1929
Report into experimental Laws of the game, November 1929
Qualification rules for Test Matches, November 1929
Report following a questionnaire into the amount of first class county matches being played, 1931
Presentation to Lord Harris on services to cricket and more especially county cricket, 9 March 1931
Final qualification rules for Test Matches, 29 July 1931
Emergency ACCC meeting on playing two matches in New Zealand after the MCC Australia Tour 1932-1933, nd
Great regret at the passing of Lord Harris, 7 April 1932
Acceptance that Ifikhar Ali Khan, is qualified to play for England on 1932-1933 MCC Tour to Australia, 29 July 1932
Preparations and accounts for India's Tour of England, 1932
Minutes of special Sub-Committee on new points scoring system for the County Championship, 5 December 1932
Proposal by Australia Board of Control to Imperial Cricket Conference on changing dangerous bowling Law following bodyline series, 22 May 1933
Confidential joint meeting of Board of Control for England and ACCC on releasing a change in Law and press release regarding leg-theory bowling, 23 November 1933
General arrangements for Australia's Tour of England in 1934, 1933
Mention of Douglas Jardine being ruled out of 1934 Australia Test Series, 21 April 1934
Umpires agreement that dangerous bowling "attacking" the batsman should be eliminated, 11 October 1934