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ActionsOn August 3, 1977, three well known first
class cricketers, Anthony William Greig John Augustine
Snow and Michael John Procter, issued a
writ against Douglas John Insole and Donald Bryce
Carr, as representatives of the Test and County
Cricket Board (“TCCB”), and William Hugh Webster
and Jack Arthur Bailey, as representatives of
the International Cricket Conference (“ICC”). The
plaintiffs claimed, inter alia, a declaration that purported
change of rules by the ICC, and implementation
of the change by the TCCB, banning the
plaintiffs, if they played in cricket matches other
than conventional Test Matches, from playing Test
Matches and first class county cricket in England
was an unlawful restraint of their right to play professional
cricket and was ultra vires and void. Further,
they sought an injunction restraining the
TCCB from implementing the decision to ban the
plaintiffs from playing Test cricket or county cricket
in England.
On August 3, J.P. Sport Pty. Ltd., which
changed its name to World Series Cricket Pty. Ltd.,
issued a writ against the representatives of the ICC
seeking, inter alia, an injunction restraining them
from implementing, or from recommending the
TCCB, or any of its members, to implement
*307 their purported change of rules banning
cricketers from playing Test Matches, if they
played in matches organised by World Series
Cricket, on the ground that the change was an inducement
to cricketers, who had contracted with
World Series Cricket, to break their contracts.
World Series Cricket also sought an injunction restraining
the TCCB from taking, at its meeting due
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