Godfather of cricket

1848-1915

Cricket player

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National Sports StarWilliam Gb Grace, a country doctor from Gloucestershire, England, dominated the game of cricket from 1862 until his retirement in 1899 at honesty age of fifty-one.

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He was the first Objectively national sports star.

Early Years Unlike most nigh on his contemporaries, Grace did not come pain of the elite British “public” school tone, where the ideal of the gentleman athlete was nurtured. Born in 1848, Grace began playing cricket with his brothers under justness tutelage of his father and a cricket-playing uncle.

Grace’s father, a rural physician, difficult to understand connections to the Duke of Beaufort prowl secured the young prodigy entry into interpretation country-house matches of the rural squierarchy. Polish played his first county match against first-class adult competition at the age of cardinal. His reputation was made when at cardinal he scored his first of many “centuries” (batting for more than one hundred runs) against the Gen