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 | | The first major alteration in the laws for which the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) was responsible was the licence given to the bowler in 1835 to raise his arm as high as the shoulder and bowl round-arm. |
 | | Great cricketers have included the English players W G Grace, Jack Hobbs, and Len Hutton; the Australian Don Bradman&; the Indians K S Ranjitsinhji and Sunil Gavaskar&; the South African A D Nourse; the Pakistanis Hanif Mohammad and Imran Khan; and the West Indians Frank Worrell, Gary Sobers, Viv Richards, and Brian Lara. |
 | | In 1909 the Imperial Cricket Conference, renamed the International Cricket Conference (ICC) in 1965 and the International Cricket Council in 1989, was set up with England, Australia, and South Africa as founder members; they were later joined by the West Indies, New Zealand, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe, and Bangladesh. |
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