… Regent's Park)', Yale Centre for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, B2001.2.165, c. 1790-1799. Image 'Cricket Match Played by the Countess of Derby and Other Ladies', Tate, collection Marylebone Cricket Club, T03031, 1779. Image Peter … The club’s importance only lasted until the 1790s, because the Marylebone Cricket Club took its place. The Hambledon players are remembered thanks to an important book, The Cricketers of My Time (1832), written by the Shakespeare scholar, Charles Cowden Clarke, and the player John Nyren, who had known most of the players personally. The Hambledon Club collected together the greatest …