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Old John Small Dies — The Last of the Hambledon Men, 1826
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1826-12-31
John Small the elder, Hampshire batsman of the great Hambledon era and inventor of the straight bat, died at Petersfield in 1826 at the age of 89. With his death the last of the original Hambledon Men was gone, severing the living link between modern Lord's-centred cricket and the village game that had dominated the eighteenth century.
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