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W. G. Grace, England national cricket team, and Australia national cricket team brown plaque
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W. G. Grace, England national cricket team, and Australia national cricket team brown plaque

W. G. Grace · Cricketer

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“This plaque honours the match played between England and Australia at The Oval, from the 6th-8th September 1880 the first test match on English soil England won by five wickets W. G. Grace scored 152, becoming England's first centurion”

Details

1848-1915

Life dates

Hobbs Gate, The Oval, Kennington Oval

SE11

Surrey County Cricket Club

Organisation

People & Places Honored

  • W. G. Grace

    cricketer, Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, and Doctor of Medicine · (1848-1915)

  • England national cricket team

    cricket club of Maurice Tate, cricket club of Frank Woolley, cricket club of Jack Hobbs, cricket club of Kenneth Hutchings, cricket club of Leonard Hutton, cricket club of John Thomas Tyldesley, cricket club of Ernest Tyldesley, cricket club of A. N. Hornby, cricket club of George Gibson Macauley, cricket club of David Harris, cricket club of Hedley Verity, cricket club of Bobby Abel, cricket club of Tom Lockyer, cricket club of Harold Larwood, and cricket club of Geoffrey Boycott · (1877-present)

  • Australia national cricket team

    cricket club

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