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The Imperial Cricket Conference Expands — Test Status for India, WI, NZ, 1926-29

Imperial Cricket Conference / Member countries

1929-05-31

Across three Imperial Cricket Conference meetings between May 1926 and May 1929, Test status was granted in turn to the West Indies (1926), India (1929) and New Zealand (1929) — tripling the number of Test nations in three years and transforming international cricket from a three-country game into a six-country one.

#imperial-cricket-conference#icc#test-status

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BCCI Founded — December 1928, Delhi

BCCI / Indian cricket administration

1928-12-04

On 4 December 1928 representatives of regional cricket associations met in Delhi and constituted the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). Within 18 months the BCCI had been admitted to the Imperial Cricket Conference, secured Test status for India, and laid the foundation for what would become the wealthiest cricket administration in the world.

#bcci#india#1928

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Women's Cricket Association Founded — England, October 1926

Women's Cricket Association

1926-10-04

On 4 October 1926, at a women's cricket week at Colwall in the Malvern Hills, 70 players agreed to form the Women's Cricket Association — the first national governing body for women's cricket in any country. Within nine years the WCA had organised the first women's Test, between England and Australia at Brisbane in December 1934.

#womens-cricket-association#england#1926

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Lord Frederick Beauclerk Takes Effective Control of the MCC Committee — November 1807

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1807-11-11

At the MCC committee elections of 11 November 1807 Lord Frederick Beauclerk — already the leading amateur cricketer in England — was elected to the steering subcommittee and emerged as the dominant figure in MCC administration. From November 1807 until his death in 1850 Beauclerk effectively ran the club: arranging fixtures, setting stakes, controlling selection and administering the laws.

#regency-cricket#underarm#lord-frederick-beauclerk

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The Mary-Le-Bone Tavern Becomes Cricket's Headquarters — MCC Committee, 1805

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1805-04-14

In April 1805 the MCC committee passed a resolution formally adopting the Mary-Le-Bone Tavern in High Street as the club's permanent headquarters. The tavern — already used informally for committee meetings since 1788 — became the site at which all major cricket matches were arranged, all stakes were settled and all rule disputes were resolved. It was the de facto governing body of cricket for the next twenty years.

#regency-cricket#underarm#lord-s-old-ground