Dr W. G. Grace had been in poor form, by his standards, for some years before 1895, which was not surprising since he was about to celebrate his 47th birthday that July. He did not play a first ...

When W. G. Grace passed away in 1915, Sydney Pardon, then Editor of Wisden, paid the highest eulogy possible to the greatest figure who ever trod the cricket field, and after the centenary of his ...