File relating to First-Class Status Committee: correspondence with the secretary regarding the first-class status of MCC and other matches including first-class counties, minor counties and minor countries. Subjects include inquiry into first-class status of MCC tour to South America, letters regarding controversial match between Nottinghamshire and Worcestershire in 1959 and its status being ruled not first-class, letter concerning the first-class status of MCC vs. Canada in 1959, question whether Leicestershire vs. Ireland in 1959 was a first-class match, includes scorecard, status of matches in Pakistan for Quaid-i-Azam Trophy, acceptance of Yorkshire's matches against Royal Air Force and Northumberland being accorded first-class status, includes scores, Lancashire vs. Lancashire League XI not being awarded first-class status, correspondence on Leicestershire vs. Royal Air Force not being accorded first-class status, confirmation of Yorkshire vs. Durham not being accorded first-class status, correspondence with first-class counties on awarding first-class status to all of Canada's matches against them, letter confirming Yorkshire vs. Northumberland not being accorded first-class status, letter not according Nottinghamshire vs. Royal Air Force first-class status, Northamptonshire matches against Royal Air Force not being accorded first-class status, decision that any match against Scotland will be first-class (with scorecards attached), confirmation to Ireland Cricket Union that Gentlemen of Ireland are considered a first-class team, query into number of first-class centuries scored by Jack Hobbs with Daily Express article, letter not according a series of matches between Northamptonshire and Dublin University first-class status, confirmation combined services matches against first-class teams have first-class status but not individual services, question of status of a friendly match between Northamptonshire and Leicestershire (with scorecard), accordance of first-class status to North vs. South and Maurice Leyland's XI vs. The Rest at Harrogate Cricket Festival (with scorecards), list of matches generally regarded as first-class but does not qualify under Imperial Cricket Conference (ICC) rules: Oxford University vs. Free Foresters, Cambridge University vs. Free Foresters, South of England vs. South Africa, South of England vs. MCC West Indies XI, North vs. South, Middlesex and Essex vs. Kent and Surrey.