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Alfred Mynn — The Lion of Kent's Final Season, 1859

Kent and various sides

1859-08-31

The 1859 season was the final first-class summer of Alfred Mynn, the Lion of Kent — a 22-stone right-arm fast-roundarm bowler and powerful hitter who had been a household name since the 1830s. Mynn played his last serious cricket at the age of 52, two years before his death; his career closed at the same moment that Parr's twelve sailed for North America and the post-Mynn generation took the game overseas.

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⭐Mild

John Wisden's Ten Wickets All Bowled — North v South, Lord's, 1850

North vs South

1850-07-15

Bowling for the South against the North at Lord's in July 1850, the Sussex fast-roundarm bowler John Wisden — the diminutive 'Little Wonder', barely 5'4" tall — clean-bowled all ten North batsmen in the second innings. It is the only first-class instance in cricket history of all ten wickets in an innings being taken bowled, and the bedrock of the reputation that would, fourteen years later, attach his name to cricket's most famous publication.

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