Bound volume, minutes of meetings held at Lord's [1934-1948]. 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, minutes of special Sub-Committee on the constitution of the Board of Control of Test Matches at Home, reports of meetings of the secretaries of Test Match grounds, newspaper clippings advertising MCC annual general meetings, minutes of meetings of minor counties, minutes of meetings of county secretaries, minutes of Sub-Committee to consider post-war cricket, correspondence between MCC and the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the financial conditions of county cricket, minutes of the special registration Sub-Committee.
Items include:
Confidential ACCC meeting on arranging a trial of new experimental leg before wicket Law and debate and MCC recommendations into fast short bowling on the leg side, 21 November 1934
Playing conditions of South Africa Tour in England 1935, 21 November 1934
Account sheets for Test Season 1934-1948
Minutes of meeting of Test Match grounds on standardisation of conditions of future Australian tours, 4 December 1934
Special and confidential meeting of ACCC considering the position of Nottinghamshire following their leg theory bowling during the 1934 county championship, 26 February 1935
New Laws on qualifications for playing for a county, 20 May 1935
Lists of Australian players for 1935 Australian Tour of South Africa, 1935
New financial arrangements for the varsity match, 19 November 1935,
Playing conditions and arrangements for India's 1936 Tour of England, 19 November 1935
Arrangements for MCC 1937 Tour of New Zealand, 17 November 1936
Arrangements for MCC 150th anniversary matches to be played at Lord's
Special report into the machinery of arranging county issues and regulations for future fixture Sub-Committee, 16 March 1937
Commission to investigate the financial state of county cricket after grave concerns aired, 16 March 1937
Playing conditions for Australia Tour of England in 1938, 16 November 1937
Responses to the committee investigating the problems facing county cricket, 22 February 1938
New laws on county qualification for cricketers, 12 April 1938
Notes on informal discussion on playing and financial conditions for Australia’s Tour of England in 1938, 30 May 1938
Notes on discussion on the length of Test Matches between England and Australia in 1938, 27 July 1938
Report of Committee appointed to prepare a scheme for the registration of County Cricketers, 9-10 February 1939
Classification of first class matches played by touring teams, 14 June 1939
Informal meeting on what should happen with post-war cricket, 8 December 1932
Report on the problems confronting county cricket after the cessation of hostilities, 1944
First post-war ACCC meeting, 12 June 1945
Letter from the Secretary of the MCC to all first-class counties on pre-arranged declarations, 9 July 1947
Classification of first class matches, 19 May 1947
Rules of county cricket, 1949
Debate on the status of Indian and Pakistan cricket following the split and creation of Pakistan, 19 July 1948
Report of the MCC selection and planning Sub-Committee on the future of international tours, 21 July 1948