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Published: 1 January 2001
Neil Jenkinson, formerly Hon Archivist of Hampshire Cricket opens his account with the great Hambledon Club of the 18th Century but his main purpose is to update that history, bringing it to the start of the twenty-first century. He describes the decline of cricket in Hambledon in the nineteenth century, various efforts to revive it, and the key events of 1908 and beyond which secured the future of the club and, independently, Broadhalfpenny Down and the bat & Ball. Includes an account of modern Hambledon’s celebrated if a soggy return to Lord’s.
