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John Wells's Retirement Match — Surrey v MCC, August 1809
Surrey vs MCC
1809-08-30
On 30-31 August 1809 John Wells of Farnham — the elder of the great Wells fast-bowling brothers — played his last major match: Surrey against MCC at the new Middle Ground at North Bank. He took 3 for 28 in the first innings and was carried from the field by the Surrey team at the close. He was forty-one and had bowled in major cricket for twenty years.
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