Northamptonshire won eight, Leicestershire six and 14 were drawn. Perhaps Dennis Brookes and Les Berry can be regarded as epitomising such games; their records, including pre-war, remarkably similar – Berry 42 matches, 2,661 runs, average 42.23 with six hundreds, Brookes 38 matches, 2,450 runs, average 43.75, seven hundreds. Labelled, often unjustly, as the Cinderellas of the holiday fixtures, Leicestershire and Northamptonshire could count themselves among the pioneers of the attempts to make the game more attractive. In 1960 MCC set up a committee of inquiry which discussed the introduction of limited overs into county cricket. The Gillette Cup was launched in 1963 but Leicestershire were ahead of the game. Mike Turner, their secretary, was an early advocate of one-day cricket and in order to put the experiment into practice in the spring of 1962 he arranged a competition with Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Northamptonshire and Leicestershire. The final of the Midlands Knock-Out Cup, with an over-limitation of 65 per side, took place at Grace Road on 9 May 1962, Northamptonshire beating Leicestershire by five wickets. Leicestershire v Northamptonshire 170