#old order

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Lord Frederick Beauclerk — MCC President as the Old Order Ends, 1826-27

MCC

1826-05-01

Lord Frederick Beauclerk, the autocratic clergyman-cricketer who had dominated English cricket since the 1790s, served as MCC president for 1826-27 — the very years in which the roundarm revolution he had spent his life resisting reached its decisive phase. Still occasionally taking the field in his late fifties, Beauclerk was the embodiment of the old underarm order, and his presidency oversaw the trial matches that would condemn it.

#lord-frederick-beauclerk#mcc#1826

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Old John Small Dies — The Last of the Hambledon Men, 1826

n/a

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.

#john-small#hambledon#1826

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Billy Beldham's Last Match — The Penultimate Hambledonian Plays for the Players, 1821

Gentlemen vs Players

1821-07-23

On 23-24 July 1821, in the chaotic Coronation Match between the Gentlemen and the Players at Lord's, William 'Silver Billy' Beldham — the last great Hambledon batsman still in important cricket — played his final recorded senior fixture at the age of 55. He scored 23 not out in the Players' innings and walked off the first-class stage that he had occupied since 1782, a career of 39 seasons unmatched in the early game.

#billy-beldham#silver-billy#hambledon