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15-588: The competition was originally only open to "senior" cricket sides (sides playing in the senior county leagues) and in 1972 the National Village Cup competition was formed for village sides unable to enter this competition. In 1997 the ECB released a blueprint to the future of cricket written by Lord MacLaurin called "Raising the Standards", the report suggested counties created county board ran leagues, designed to raise

30-620: A deputy lieutenant of the County of Hertfordshire from 1992 to 2001 and for Wiltshire from 2002 to 2012. This gives him the Post Nominal Letters "DL" for Life. He was awarded Honorary Life Membership of the Marylebone Cricket Club in 2005. List A cricket First-class cricket One Day International Limited overs (domestic) Twenty20 International Twenty20 (domestic) Other forms List A cricket

45-536: A company that works with retailers including Argos , Monsoon Accessorize and Booths . MacLaurin is honorary life president of Hope for Tomorrow, a UK cancer charity. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) in 1986. He was knighted in 1989, and raised to the peerage for life in 1996 taking the title Baron MacLaurin of Knebworth , of Knebworth in the County of Hertfordshire . He served as

60-526: A year later. Upon his retirement from the board in July 2006, he became an adviser to the company. He was succeeded as chairman by Sir John Bond . He also became chairman of the Vodafone Group Foundation , an independent charitable trust set up to administer charitable and other donations on behalf of the company. MacLaurin has always been enthusiastic towards sports. At Malvern College , he played in

75-548: Is a British businessman, who has been chairman of Vodafone and chairman and chief executive of Tesco . He is a former chairman of the England and Wales Cricket Board , a former president of the Marylebone Cricket Club and a former Chancellor of the University of Hertfordshire . He was a Conservative member of the House of Lords from 1996 until his retirement in 2017. Ian MacLaurin

90-458: Is a classification of the limited-overs (one-day) form of the sport of cricket , with games lasting up to eight hours. List A cricket includes One Day International (ODI) matches and various domestic competitions in which the number of overs in an innings per team ranges from forty to sixty, as well as some international matches involving nations who have not achieved official ODI status. Together with first-class and Twenty20 cricket, List A

105-467: Is a supervisory board member of Heineken International . MacLaurin has been a Chancellor of the University of Hertfordshire . He was also the long-term chairman of the college council of Malvern College . He is the president of The Enterprise Forum , a not-for-profit organisation that organises meetings between business and the Coalition government. MacLaurin is chairman of Paperless Receipts Ltd,

120-637: Is one of the three major forms of cricket recognised by the International Cricket Council (ICC). In November 2021, the ICC retrospectively applied List A status to women's cricket, aligning it with the men's game. Most Test cricketing nations have some form of domestic List A competition. The scheduled number of overs in List A cricket ranges from forty to sixty overs per side, mostly commonly fifty overs. The categorisation of cricket matches as "List A"

135-414: The 16 winners going into a national round. Source: Due to sponsorship, the competition has been known by the following names: This article related to an English domestic cricket competition is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Ian MacLaurin, Baron MacLaurin of Knebworth Ian Charter MacLaurin, Baron MacLaurin of Knebworth DL FRSA (born 30 March 1937)

150-651: The First XI. In his 20s, he played Minor Counties cricket for Hertfordshire . From 1997 until 2002 he was the Chairman of the England and Wales Cricket Board and is now Chairman of the Sport Honours Committee . MacLaurin was President of the Marylebone Cricket Club from 1 October 2017 to 30 September 2018. His son Neil MacLaurin has played first-class and List A cricket for Middlesex , as well as Minor Counties and List A cricket for Hertfordshire. MacLaurin

165-714: The generation of career records and statistics for comparable one-day matches. Only the more important one-day competitions in each country, plus matches against a touring Test team, are included. The categorisation was the work of Philip Bailey. • Australia A cricket team • Afghanistan A cricket team • Bangladesh A cricket team • England A cricket team • India A cricket team • Ireland A cricket team • New Zealand A cricket team • Pakistan A cricket team • South Africa A cricket team • Sri Lanka A cricket team • West Indies A cricket team • Zimbabwe A cricket team Matches were divided into three categories: The first match retrospectively designated as

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180-414: The largest UK retailer. MacLaurin led Tesco away from the "pile it high, sell it cheap" business philosophy of founder Jack Cohen . He has claimed his most important act was appointing the right successor, Terry Leahy . MacLaurin joined Vodafone as a non-executive director in 1997, becoming chairman in July 1998. He stepped down on the merger with AirTouch Communications Inc in 1999, resuming his role

195-557: The standard of club cricket and bridge the gap between Club and county cricket. This led to the creation of the ECB Premier Leagues . Preference for entry to the competition was given to clubs in ECB Premier Leagues, although lower-level clubs are able to take part if they can be accommodated. The format has largely stayed the same from the initial season to the present day. All teams are split into 16 regional knockouts, with

210-489: Was born in 1937 in Blackheath , Kent. He attended Shrewsbury House School and Malvern College . MacLaurin joined Tesco in 1959 as a management trainee, then held a number of more senior appointments in its retail operations before being appointed to its Board in 1970. He was appointed managing director in the 1970s and became chairman in 1985. By the time of his retirement in 1997 Tesco had overtaken Sainsbury's to become

225-399: Was not officially endorsed by the International Cricket Council until 2006, when the ICC announced it, along with its member associations, would be determining this classification in a manner similar to that done for first-class matches. The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians created this category for the purpose of providing an equivalent to first-class cricket, to allow

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