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We issue regular e- • Everyone knows WG Grace. He isn't synonymous with cricket; he's been in a partnership with it since the 1800s. There are busts of him, statues of him, pictures of him, avatars of him the world over. He has gates named after him, has starred in films posthumously, and people are still writing non-fiction, and fiction, about him. My father's unkind nickname from his wicketkeeper was WG. Virtually any tubby bloke with a noticeable beard from a cricket nation has probably been called the same. Where I live, a four-and-a-half-minute walk away is a pub. It is not a great pub. It's oddly set up, has a poor bourbon selection, and it sells "jam donut shots". They once advertised a "black Elvis" performance. Mostly it is only full when there has been a big funeral at the cemetery next door. The pub is called The Graces. In that cemetery, barely an Albert Trott hit away, on the side opposite Thomas Crapper's grave, rests WG Grace. It is an old cemetery, full of South London families of the highest order. The gravestones are amazingly big, and expensive looking. But in the older areas, reserved for those long dead, they are crumbling, falling or just indistinguishable because of their fading greyness. What of the fact that despite saying he was a
Cricket's greatest bastard