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01 Feb 2012 12:27 #73320
by ketchim
On the afternoon of Tuesday 14 July 1789 :
the Earl of Winchelsea was clean bowled by William Bullen for a duck
in Hampshire's second innings as they forlornly chased a Kent target of 88 runs
at Hambledon cricket ground.
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01 Feb 2012 12:28 #73322
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At the same time, some 300 miles away across the Channel ;
thousands of Parisians had surrounded a prison in the Rue Saint-Antoine.
At around 5.30pm, roughly the same time as Hampshire's last wicket fell,
they stormed the gates of the prison, known as the Bastille.
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01 Feb 2012 12:30 #73325
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In the 18th Century cricket symbolised social stability in Britain :
with duke bowling at peasant..... :cool:
But could it have stopped the French Revolution ?
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01 Feb 2012 12:31 #73327
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" if the French nobility had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants,
their chateaux would never have been burnt "..... ::redcard::
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01 Feb 2012 12:32 #73328
by ketchim
As a popular song of the Georgian era put it :
"Cricket is the game for the low and the great ".
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01 Feb 2012 12:35 #73329
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Prince Frederick, the son of George II, played for Surrey and London, led his own
"All England XI" and died prematurely in 1751
after being hit in the head while fielding in a match. ::redface:: ::redface:: ::redface::
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01 Feb 2012 12:38 #73331
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In one game, George Lamborn, a shepherd who invented off-break bowling :
repeatedly beat the Duke of Dorset who was batting.
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01 Feb 2012 12:44 #73333
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By the early 1800s, traditional village cricket and its distinctive social mixing
was all but dead.... ::redface::
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