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This was in the MCC v Nottinghamshire match at Lord's in June 1870. The tour was "a high point of (Grace's) early years" and he "retained fond memories of it" for the rest of his life, calling it "a prolonged and happy picnic" in his ghost-written Reminiscences.

Grace visited Australia in 1873–74 as captain of "W. 1872 was a wet summer and Grace ended his season in early August so that he could join the tour of North America.

Grace became the first batsman to score a century before lunch in a first-class match when he made 134 for Gentlemen of the South versus Players of the South at The Oval in 1873.

His aggregate for the season was 2,739 runs and this was the first time that anyone had scored 2,000 first-class runs in a season; Harry Jupp was next best with 1,068. She had been his favourite child. He was paid a salary for his roles as secretary and manager of the London County club. He could drive straight and sometimes putt well but, for reasons that Darwin could not understand, "he never could play an iron shot well".

Despite living in London for many years, Grace never lost his Gloucestershire accent.

Then, in 1868, Grace received overtures from Caius College, Cambridge, which had a long medical tradition. It is evident that Grace "plotted" his own omission from the England team by asking C. B. Fry, another selector who had arrived late for their meeting, if he thought that MacLaren should play in the Second Test. Despite being an all-rounder, Grace was also an opening batsman.

Bowling

As a bowler, Grace belonged to what Altham calls the "high, home and easy school of a much earlier day".

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See also:

• Wikipedia: W._G._Grace
• Biography and Statistics at ESPN Cricinfo: [1]
• This WikiTree profile is referenced from Wikidata: Item Q616068, en:Wikipedia
• BOOK: The Complete Who's Who of Test Cricketers by Christopher Martin-Jenkins. His left shoulder pointed to the bowler.

  He played 878 First-Class matches over 44 seasons between 1865 and 1908, and played 22 Test Matches for England during the 1880s and 1890s, scoring the first Test century by an Englishman on his debut against Australia in 1880. In later life, he developed enthusiasm for golf, lawn bowls and curling.

  He qualified as a medical practitioner in 1879.

  His beard hung right over the ball as he stroked it – the ball, I mean, not his beard. Please don't go away!

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  He completed his hundredth century playing for Gloucestershire against Somerset in May.Charles Townsend, his batting partner when he reached the milestone, said that as he approached his hundred: "This was the one and only time I ever saw him flustered..." Eventually Sammy Woods bowled a full toss which Grace drove for four to reach his century.

  Most of these were ad hoc or guest appearances. Grove Park made 99–8 in reply.

  

  Matches were played in Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, London, New York, Philadelphia and Boston. Two of his direct descendants attended the ceremony: Dominic, his great-great-grandson; and George, Dominic's son.

  According to Mark Bonham-Carter, H. H. Asquith's grandson, Grace would have been one of the people to be appointed a peer had Asquith's plan to flood the House of Lords with Liberal peers come to fruition.

  This was aimed principally at England's outstanding bowler James Southerton who had been playing for both Surrey and Sussex, having been born in one county and living in the other. The satirical magazine Punch responded to it by publishing a parody of Byron's poem The Destruction of Sennacherib including a wry commentary on Grace's contribution:

  The Australians came down like a wolf on the fold, The Mary'bone Cracks for a trifle were bowled; Our Grace before dinner was very soon done, And Grace after dinner did not get a run.

  There was bad feeling between Grace and some of the 1878 Australians, especially their manager John Conway; this came to a head on 20 June in a row over the services of Grace's friend Billy Midwinter, an Australian who had played for Gloucestershire in 1877.