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Surrey's 1864 Title and Mid-Decade Decline — The End of the First Surrey Era
Surrey vs other counties
1864-09-01
Surrey, the dominant county of the 1850s, took the unofficial championship one last time in 1864 — winning eight and drawing three of eleven first-class matches — and then collapsed. The retirement of HH Stephenson, William Mortlock, Julius Caesar and Tom Lockyer combined with William Caffyn's emigration to Australia stripped the side of its core. By 1869 Surrey were largely carried by James Southerton's bowling and Ted Pooley's wicket-keeping; the recovery would not come until the early 1870s.
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