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W. G. Grace

1848 - 1915

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William Gilbert Grace (18 July 1848 – 23 October 1915) was an English cricketer who is widely considered one of the sport's all-time greatest players. Always known by his initials as "WG", his first-class career spanned a record-equalling 44 seasons from 1865 to 1908. Test cricket originated during his career, and he represented England in 22 matches from 1880 to 1899. In domestic cricket, he was mostly associated with Gloucestershire, the Gentlemen, Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), and the United South of England Eleven (USEE). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of W. G. Grace has received more than 1,282,136 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). W. G. Grace is the 5th most popular cricketer (down from 4th in 2019), the 4,930th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,966th in 2019) and the most popular British Cricketer.

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  • 34

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.50

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.38

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CRICKETERS

Among cricketers, W. G. Grace ranks 5 out of 136. Before him are Don Bradman, Sachin Tendulkar, Sunil Gavaskar, and Kapil Dev. After him are Virat Kohli, MS Dhoni, Bishan Singh Bedi, Willie Watson, Viv Richards, Shane Warne, and Ravindra Jadeja.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1848, W. G. Grace ranks 116. Before him are Otto Bütschli, James Whitbread Lee Glaisher, Matthew Webb, Ivan Yakovlev, Amos Burn, and Albert Parsons. After him are Eliodoro Villazón, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Louisa Lawson, and B. B. Comer. Among people deceased in 1915, W. G. Grace ranks 120. Before him are Solomon Schechter, Keir Hardie, Béla Las-Torres, José María Campo Serrano, Charles Walter De Vis, and Vasily Goncharov. After him are Henry Roscoe, Charles Tupper, William Wallace Denslow, John Bunny, Tom Watson, and Lawrence Hargrave.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, W. G. Grace ranks 4,930 out of 8,785. Before him are John Fenning (1885), Basil Hume (1923), Reginald Denny (1891), John Rhodes (1927), Toby Kebbell (1982), and Gavin Rossdale (1965). After him are Ivy Compton-Burnett (1884), Jack Butler Yeats (1871), Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset (1536), Billy Liddell (1922), John Ogilvie (1579), and Will Champion (1978).

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Among CRICKETERS In United Kingdom

Among cricketers born in United Kingdom, W. G. Grace ranks 1. After him are Willie Watson (1920), Montagu Toller (1871), Alfred Bowerman (1873), William Donne (1876), James Anderson (1982), C. B. K. Beachcroft (1870), Andrew Symonds (1975), Moeen Ali (1987), Joe Root (1990), Jos Buttler (1990), and Alastair Cook (1984).

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