No disruption of cricket cup

Press, 9 April 1979, Page 24

No disruption of cricket cup

NZPA-Reuter Birmingham. England The World Cricket Cup ; will go ahead this summer (without any disruptive action from English county (cricketers, the English i Cricketer’s Association hasj (decided. i With peace thought to be (near in the dispute between ( (traditional cricket and Kerry (Packer's World Series! Cricket (W.S.C.) the association decided at its annual (meeting . in Birmingham, (England, to hard-line anti- ' Packer resolutions, left on I the table from last year.' j They can not now be I voted on until a special meeting of 'the association on July 5, by which time the World Cup will be over. However, the two motions initiated by England’s captain Mike Brearley, and a former England player, Keith Fletcher, were comfortably passed. The first, restricting the i entry of W.S.C. players into 1

the county game in England, was passed by 130 votes to 83. The second, banning the recruitment of a Packer player released by another county, was passed by' 124 to 90. A third resolution, which urged ''amiable coexistence” with players contracted to W.S.C. went through fart more easily by 166 to 28. The Brearley-Fletcher proposals automatically become null and void when firm! agreement is announced be- i tween the International; Cricket Conference (1.C.C.) ind Packer. The association's chair-! man, David Brown, and the! secretary, Jack Bannister,! are encouraged by the pro-! gress being made towards a settlement. Bannister saying: i ‘Agreement could come in! veeks rather than months.” i The association’s presilent, John Arlott, said: ‘‘The! isso’ciation has done its ut-l most to hasten negotiations! tut we have been given no! tint of any progress made.” I