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Death of Joseph 'Joey' Ring — Hambledon's Last Regular Bowler, July 1800
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1800-07-19
Joseph 'Joey' Ring of Hambledon — left-arm fast underarm bowler and one of the last surviving regulars of the great Hambledon side of the 1780s — died at Hambledon in July 1800 in his early forties. His death is one of the markers historians use for the end of the Hambledon era proper: of the eleven who beat England at Sevenoaks in 1777, only Beldham, Walker and a handful of fielders were still in major cricket.
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