W. G. Grace (which most of u unknown)

Dr William Gilbert ("WG") Grace, MRCS, LRCP (born 18 July 1848 at Downend, near Bristol; died 23 October 1915 at Mottingham, Kent) was an English amateur cricketer who has been widely acknowledged as the greatest player of all time, especially in terms of his importance to the development of the sport. Universally known as "WG", his initials being a sobriquet, but Gilbert to his friends and Gibby to his family, he played first-class cricket for a record-equalling 44 seasons, from 1865 to 1908, during which he captained England, Gloucestershire County Cricket Club, the Gentlemen, MCC, the United South of England Eleven and several other teams.
Right-handed as both batsman and bowler, Grace dominated the sport during his career and left, through his enormous influence and technical innovations, a lasting legacy. An outstanding all-rounder, he excelled at all the essential skills of batting, bowling and fielding, but it is for his batting that he is most renowned as he is held to have invented modern batting. An opening batsman, he was particularly noted for his mastery of all strokes and this level of expertise was said by contemporary reviewers to be unique. He generally captained the teams he played for at all levels and was noted for his tactical acumen. He came from a cricketing family and his brothers EM and Fred also played Test cricket for England.

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Competition	Tests	FC
Matches	22	878
Runs scored	1,098	54,896
Batting average	32.29	39.55
100s/50s	2/5	126/254
Top score	170	344
Balls bowled	666	126,157
Wickets	9	2,864+12
Bowling average	26.22	17.99
5 wickets in innings	0	246
10 wickets in match	0	66
Best bowling	2/12	10/49
Catches/stumpings	39/-	887/5

Grace's best season as a bowler was 1875 when he took 191 wickets. He also scored 1,498 runs to complete his third double and he went on to do that eight times in all.

1873 – 2,139 runs and 106 wickets

1874 – 1,664 runs and 140 wickets

1875 – 1,498 runs and 191 wickets

1876 – 2,622 runs and 129 wickets

1877 – 1,474 runs and 179 wickets

1878 – 1,151 runs and 152 wickets

1885 – 1,688 runs and 117 wickets

1886 – 1,846 runs and 122 wickets

Other sports

Grace was an outstanding athlete as a young man and won the 440 yards hurdling title at the National Olympian Games at Crystal Palace in August 1866.In addition to running, he was an excellent thrower as evidenced when he threw a cricket ball 122 yards during an athletics event at Eastbourne.