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Fred Grace

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George Frederick Grace (13 December 1850 – 22 September 1880) was an English first-class cricketer active from 1866 to 1880 who played for Gloucestershire and the United South of England Eleven (USEE). [1]

81 relations: A. N. Hornby, Alfred Shaw, All-rounder, Australia national cricket team, Australian cricket team in England in 1880, Basingstoke, Batting (cricket), Bernard Darwin, Beyond a Boundary, Billy Midwinter, Bowling (cricket), Bradford-on-Avon railway station, Bristol, C. L. R. James, Caught, Clifton College Close Ground, Clifton, Bristol, Common cold, County Championship, County cricket, Downend, South Gloucestershire, Duck (cricket), Durdham Down, E. M. Grace, Edmund Carter (cricketer, born 1845), England cricket team, English cricket team in Australia in 1873–74, Fast bowling, Fielding (cricket), First-class cricket, Forms of cricket, Fred Spofforth, Gentlemen cricket team, Gentlemen v Players, George Bonnor, George Harris, 4th Baron Harris, Gloucestershire County Cricket Club, Grace family, Hampshire, Harry Boyle (cricketer), Harry Jupp, Henry Grace (cricketer), History of cricket, Hit wicket, Isaac Walker (cricketer), James Lillywhite, James Southerton, Lord's, Magdalen Ground, Marylebone Cricket Club, ..., Meadow Road, Beeston, Medicine, Melbourne, Melbourne Club, North v South, Not out, Oxford, Oxford University Cricket Club, Pairs in Test and first-class cricket, Players cricket team, Pneumonia, Ronald Mason (cricket writer), Roundarm bowling, Run (cricket), Southampton, Stroud, Stumped, Surrey County Cricket Club, Sydney Riot of 1879, Test cricket, The Daily Telegraph, The Oval, The Times, United South of England Eleven, W. G. Grace, Walter Gilbert (cricketer), Walter Money, Wicket, Wicket-keeper, William Oscroft, Winchester. Expand index (31 more) »

A. N. Hornby

Albert Neilson Hornby, nicknamed Monkey Hornby (10 February 1847 – 17 December 1925) was one of the best-known sportsmen in England during the nineteenth century excelling in both rugby and cricket.

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Alfred Shaw

Alfred Shaw (29 August 1842 – 16 January 1907) was an eminent Victorian cricketer and rugby footballer, who bowled the first ball in Test cricket and was the first to take five wickets in a Test innings (5/35).

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All-rounder

An all-rounder is a cricketer who regularly performs well at both batting and bowling.

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Australia national cricket team

The Australia national cricket team is the joint oldest team in Test cricket history, having played in the first ever Test match in 1877.

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Australian cricket team in England in 1880

The Australian cricket team in England in 1880 played nine first-class matches including one Test, which was the first ever played in England.

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Basingstoke

Basingstoke is the largest town in the modern county of Hampshire (Southampton and Portsmouth being cities.) It is situated in south central England, and lies across a valley at the source of the River Loddon.

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Batting (cricket)

In the sport of cricket, batting is the act or skill of hitting the cricket ball with a cricket bat to score runs or prevent the loss of one's wicket.

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Bernard Darwin

Bernard Richard Meirion Darwin CBE JP (7 September 1876 – 18 October 1961) a grandson of the British naturalist Charles Darwin, was a golf writer and high-standard amateur golfer.

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Beyond a Boundary

Beyond a Boundary (1963) is a memoir on cricket written by the Trinidadian Marxist intellectual C. L. R. James, which he described as "neither cricket reminiscences nor autobiography".

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Billy Midwinter

William "Billy" Evans Midwinter (19 June 1851 – 3 December 1890) was a cricketer who played four Test matches for England, sandwiched in between eight Tests that he played for Australia.

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Bowling (cricket)

Bowling, in cricket, is the action of propelling the ball toward the wicket defended by a batsman.

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Bradford-on-Avon railway station

Bradford-on-Avon railway station is a railway station on the Wessex Main Line in between and, serving the town of Bradford on Avon (the station name is hyphenated, unlike the name of the town), in Wiltshire, England.

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Bristol

Bristol is a city and county in South West England with a population of 456,000.

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C. L. R. James

Cyril Lionel Robert James (4 January 1901 – 31 May 1989), who sometimes wrote under the pen-name J. R. Johnson, was an Afro-Trinidadian historian, journalist and socialist.

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Caught

Caught is a method of dismissing a batsman in the sport of cricket.

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Clifton College Close Ground

Clifton College Close is a cricket venue in Clifton College, Bristol, which was used by Gloucestershire for 96 first-class matches between 1871 and 1932.

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Clifton, Bristol

Clifton is both a suburb of Bristol, England, and the name of one of the city's thirty-five council wards.

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Common cold

The common cold, also known simply as a cold, is a viral infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract that primarily affects the nose.

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County Championship

The County Championship, currently known as the Specsavers County Championship for sponsorship reasons, is the domestic first-class cricket competition in England and Wales and is organised by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB).

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County cricket

Inter-county cricket matches are known to have been played since the early 18th century, involving teams that are representative of the historic counties of England and Wales.

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Downend, South Gloucestershire

Downend is a residential outer suburb of Bristol in Gloucestershire, England, the housing stock is typically terraced Victorian, 1930’s and 1950’s Semi-Detached and Detached.

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Duck (cricket)

In cricket, a duck is a batsman's dismissal for a score of zero.

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Durdham Down

Durdham Down is an area of public open space in Bristol, England.

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E. M. Grace

Edward Mills Grace (28 November 1841 – 20 May 1911) was an English first-class cricketer in the second half of the 19th century who was an all-rounder, batting right-handed and bowling slow right arm underarm.

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Edmund Carter (cricketer, born 1845)

Edmund Sardinson Carter (3 February 1845 – 23 May 1923) was an English first-class cricketer, who played for Oxford University, Victoria and Yorkshire.

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England cricket team

The England cricket team represents England and Wales (and, until 1992, also Scotland) in international cricket.

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English cricket team in Australia in 1873–74

An England cricket team toured Australia in 1873-74.

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Fast bowling

Fast bowling is one of the two main approaches to bowling in the sport of cricket, the other being spin bowling.

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Fielding (cricket)

Fielding in the sport of cricket is the action of fielders in collecting the ball after it is struck by the batsman, to limit the number of runs that the batsman scores and/or to get the batsman out by catching the ball in flight or by running the batsman out.

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First-class cricket

First-class cricket is an official classification of the highest-standard international or domestic matches in the sport of cricket.

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Forms of cricket

Cricket is a multi-faceted sport with multiple formats, depending on the standard of play, the desired level of formality, and the time available.

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Fred Spofforth

Frederick Robert "Fred" Spofforth (9 September 1853 – 4 June 1926), also known as "The Demon Bowler", was arguably the Australian cricket team's finest pace bowler of the nineteenth century and was the first bowler to take 50 Test wickets, and the first to take a Test hat-trick in 1879.

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Gentlemen cricket team

The Gentlemen appeared in first-class cricket between 1806 and 1962, always in the showcase Gentlemen v Players matches against the Players.

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Gentlemen v Players

Gentlemen v Players was a first-class cricket match generally held in England twice or more a year for well over a century.

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George Bonnor

George John Bonnor (25 February 1855 – 27 June 1912) was an Australian cricketer, known for his big hitting, who played Test cricket between 1880 and 1888.

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George Harris, 4th Baron Harris

Colonel George Robert Canning Harris, 4th Baron Harris, (3 February 1851 – 24 March 1932), generally known as Lord Harris, was a British colonial administrator and Governor of Bombay.

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Gloucestershire County Cricket Club

Gloucestershire County Cricket Club is one of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales.

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Grace family

The Grace family was an English cricketing family.

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Hampshire

Hampshire (abbreviated Hants) is a county on the southern coast of England in the United Kingdom.

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Harry Boyle (cricketer)

Henry Frederick "Harry" Boyle (10 December 1847 – 21 November 1907) was a leading Australian Test cricketer of the late 1870s and early 1880s.

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Harry Jupp

Henry Jupp (19 November 1841 – 8 April 1889) was an English professional cricketer who was the opening batsman for Surrey County Cricket Club from 1862 to 1881.

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Henry Grace (cricketer)

Henry Grace (31 January 1833 – 13 November 1895) was an English cricketer active in 1871 who played for Gloucestershire.

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History of cricket

The sport of cricket has a known history beginning in the late 16th century.

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Hit wicket

Hit wicket is a method of dismissal in the sport of cricket.

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Isaac Walker (cricketer)

Isaac Donnithorne Walker (8 January 1844 – 6 July 1898) was an English cricketer.

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James Lillywhite

James Lillywhite (23 February 1842 – 25 October 1929) was an English Test cricketer and an umpire.

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James Southerton

James Southerton (16 November 1827 – 16 June 1880) was a professional cricketer who played first-class cricket between 1854 and 1879.

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Lord's

Lord's Cricket Ground, commonly known simply as Lord's, is a cricket venue in St John's Wood, London.

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Magdalen Ground

The Magdalen Ground is a cricket ground in Oxford, England.

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Marylebone Cricket Club

Marylebone Cricket Club, generally known as the MCC, is a cricket club founded in 1787 and based since 1814 at Lord's cricket ground, which it owns, in St John's Wood, London, England.

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Meadow Road, Beeston

Meadow Road was a cricket ground in Beeston, Nottinghamshire.

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Medicine

Medicine is the science and practice of the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease.

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Melbourne

Melbourne is the state capital of Victoria and the second-most populous city in Australia and Oceania.

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Melbourne Club

The Melbourne Club is a private social club established in 1838 and located at 36 Collins Street, Melbourne; adjacent to the Lyceum Club, which is located in Ridgway Place, Melbourne.

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North v South

The North of England and South of England cricket teams appeared in first-class cricket between the 1836 and 1961 seasons, most often in matches against each other but also individually in games against touring teams, Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) and others.

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Not out

In cricket, a batsman will be not out if he comes out to bat in an innings and has not been dismissed by the end of the innings.

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Oxford

Oxford is a city in the South East region of England and the county town of Oxfordshire.

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Oxford University Cricket Club

Oxford University Cricket Club (OUCC), which represents the University of Oxford, has always held important or first-class status and is classified as an important team by substantial sources from 1827 to 1894; classified as an official first-class team from 1895 by Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) and the County Championship clubs; and classified as a List A team in 1973 only.

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Pairs in Test and first-class cricket

A pair in cricket refers to when a batsman is dismissed for a duck (without scoring) in both innings.

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Players cricket team

The Players appeared in first-class cricket between 1806 and 1962, nearly always in the showcase Gentlemen v Players matches against the Gentlemen, though Players teams have occasionally played against touring sides too.

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Pneumonia

Pneumonia is an inflammatory condition of the lung affecting primarily the small air sacs known as alveoli.

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Ronald Mason (cricket writer)

Ronald Charles Mason (1912 – 5 August 2001) was an English writer of novels, biographies, literary criticism and cricket books.

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Roundarm bowling

In cricket, roundarm bowling is a bowling style that was introduced in the first quarter of the 19th century and largely superseded underarm bowling by the 1830s.

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Run (cricket)

In cricket, a run is running the length of the pitch, and is a basic means of scoring, as the team with the most runs wins.

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Southampton

Southampton is the largest city in the ceremonial county of Hampshire, England.

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Stroud

Stroud is a market town and civil parish in the centre of Gloucestershire, England.

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Stumped

Stumped is a method of dismissal in cricket.

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Surrey County Cricket Club

Surrey County Cricket Club is one of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales.

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Sydney Riot of 1879

The Sydney Riot of 1879 was an instance of civil disorder that occurred at an early international cricket match.

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Test cricket

Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket and is considered its highest standard.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, commonly referred to simply as The Telegraph, is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally.

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The Oval

The Oval, currently known for sponsorship reasons as the Kia Oval, is an international cricket ground in Kennington, in the London Borough of Lambeth, South London.

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The Times

The Times is a British daily (Monday to Saturday) national newspaper based in London, England.

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United South of England Eleven

The United South of England Eleven (USEE) was an itinerant cricket team founded in November 1864 by Edgar Willsher, as secretary, and John Lillywhite, as treasurer.

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W. G. Grace

William Gilbert "W.

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Walter Gilbert (cricketer)

Walter Raleigh Gilbert (16 September 1853 – 26 July 1924) was an English amateur cricketer who played first-class cricket for Middlesex and Gloucestershire between 1873 and 1886.

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Walter Money

The Reverend Walter Baptist Money (27 July 1848 – 1 March 1924) was an English clergyman and cricketer who played first-class cricket for Cambridge University, Kent, Surrey, the Gentlemen and several other amateur sides between 1867 and 1871.

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Wicket

In the sport of cricket, the wicket is one of the two sets of three stumps and two bails at either end of the pitch.

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Wicket-keeper

The wicket-keeper in the sport of cricket is the player on the fielding side who stands behind the wicket or stumps being watchful of the batsman and be ready to take a catch, stump the batsman out and run out a batsman when occasion arises.

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William Oscroft

William Oscroft (16 December 1843 at Arnold, Nottinghamshire – 10 October 1905 at Nottingham) was an English professional cricketer who played first-class cricket from 1864 to 1882.

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Winchester

Winchester is a city and the county town of Hampshire, England.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Grace

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