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Getting started with a six (or a couple of blobs)
Apr 11, 2017: Also, who has the most international hat-tricks? And is Misbah the oldest Test captain ever?
The making of a sporting icon lies in the timing
Oct 5, 2015: The legend of great sportsmen like WG Grace, Babe Ruth and Sachin Tendulkar is partly to do with the eras they lived in
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The start of something very special
Jun 13, 2015: The 16-year-old WG Grace made an impact in his very first match 150 years ago
WG Grace, 1848-1915
Apr 8, 2015: Looking back at arguably the most famous sporting celebrity in the British Empire during the half-century before the First World War
Wisden on Grace
Mar 22, 2015: Either way, WG Grace generated more than his share of column centimetres, in his lifetime and beyond
Nov 25, 2013: After the emotion of Sachin Tendulkar's last Test, a look at some farewells that didn't go quite so well
Sep 2, 2013: Famous incidents when batsmen were hit by bouncers
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Apr 6, 2013: In 1903, the English county season got off to a start with a match between London County and Surrey. But the match, which featured WG Grace and Bangalore Jayaram, was played amid sleet and snow showers
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Apr 7, 2012: An early-season game at The Oval in freezing cold over a century ago marked the exit of one of cricket's great legends
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Test cricket's last-minute arrival
Sep 11, 2010: The first Test to be played in England was a hastily put-together affair that took place against the odds
No. 4
Dec 19, 2009: If not for the good doctor, cricket might have remained a pastime rather than a great international sport
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The crowd without the silver lining
Jun 27, 2009: It had rained, the conditions were not suitable, but these spectators wanted their monies' worth and just wouldn't go home
England news
Grace bat to go under the hammer
Apr 20, 2009: A 113-year-old bat used by WG Grace will be auctioned at Sotheby's in London next month for an expected £30,000
Sep 4, 2008: After Kevin Pietersen's success, we take a look at 11 other captains who made a mark early in their reign
The Wisden Cricketer - May 2008
Aug 2, 2008: How the other 24 beat Mark Ramprakash to the landmark
WG Grace: A Life
Jul 26, 2008: Serious scholarship and unflagging zest make this biography one of cricket's best life stories
May 28, 2008: Batsmen who have been let down by their - or others' - running
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Nov 17, 2007: When a wicketkeeper came on to bowl - in his pads - and took 4 for 8 ... and all in an Ashes Test
Cricinfo XI
Jul 31, 2007: Eleven players who continued turning out well beyond normal retirement age
Cricinfo XI
Apr 26, 2007: Brian Lara's final innings ended in anticlimax, but he is not alone in not bowing out in fairytale fashion. Here are 11 other players who have departed with a whimper rather than a bang
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