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Hampshire's Decline as a Major Cricket County — Season Review, 1809
Hampshire
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By the close of the 1809 season Hampshire — for half a century the strongest cricket county in England, the home of the Hambledon Club and the source of Beldham, Walker, Harris and Small — had ceased to field a competitive major-county side. The Hambledon Club had dissolved more than a decade earlier; its players were retiring; no organised replacement structure existed. The 1809 season is the conventional moment at which Hampshire's first great cricketing era ended.
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