WG GRACE FATHER OF CRICKET

WILLIAM GILBERT GRACE WG Grace,(18 July 1848–23 October 1915) was an English amateur cricketer who was prominent in the development of the sport and is widely regarded one of its greatest-ever players. William Gilbert WG Grace was ‘born in the atmosphere of cricket’. He spent almost every possible minute of his life playing cricket (or telling people about how he played cricket and how to play cricket genuinely). A clean- shaven, fifteen-year-old William Gilbert Grace first notified the game of his skill with a series of big scores–his batting would revolutionise the way cricket was played, and his personality the way it was organised and promoted.

As a batsman, no cricketer before him had ever spent as much time quietly working on his game, perfecting the technique and inventing batting. So Grace made something so natural to modern cricketers and so alien at the time. He moved according to where the ball was pitched. If he needed to move forward, he would. If he needed to move back, he would.
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