Lawrence Booth, the then writer of the “Spin Column” in the Guardian, who now writes for the Daily Mail wrote of the campaign headed by Ian Harris and his girlfriend Janie in their fight for equal rights to gain access to the “Bowler Bar” at the MCC. Those who are touched by Ian Harris’s revolutionary zeal rapidly end up as pillars of the “establishment” and in 2011 Lawrence was named the next Editor of the Wisden Almanack, the youngest ever.
For the full story: http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2003/oct/14/thespin.cricket?INTCMP=SRCH