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William Gilbert Grace, English cricket player (), who by his extraordinary skills made cricket perhaps the first modern spectator sport and developed most of the technique of modern batting.

In a career spanning nearly forty years, he averaged at first class level, an average undoubtedly dragged down by playing into his late fifties. At his peak in the 's his first-class season averages were regularly between 60 and 70, at a time where uncovered, poorly-prepared pitches meant that scores were far lower than the modern game.

He played Test cricket against Australia in the 's, but he was already past his peak at that stage.

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GRACE, WILLIAM GILBERT ( ), English cricketer, was born at Downend, Gloucestershire, on the 18th of July He found himself in an atmosphere charged with cricket, his father (Henry Mills Grace) and his uncle (Alfred Pocock) being as enthusiastic over the game as his elder brothe