Wisden reduces W. G. Grace’s tally of first-class centuries
Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack has decided to reduce the number of first-class centuries scored by England’s Victorianera star, W. G. Grace.
Wisden has downgraded the status of several ‘first-class’ matches played by Grace. Ten matches have been removed from Grace’s record, lowering his centuries from 126 to 124.
Grace was thought to have scored his 100th century for Gloucestershire against Somerset on May 17, 1■95. Instead, Wisden has ruled that Grace’s 100th hundred came a fortnight later when he also became the first man to hit 1,000 first-class runs before the end of May, one of only eight cricketers to achieve the feat.