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1874 English cricket season

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The 1874 English cricket season saw WG Grace become the first player to perform the “double” in an English season. In 21 first-class matches, he scored 1664 runs and took 140 wickets.

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The season was notable for a major accident to leading Yorkshire fast bowler Allen Hill, who was the leading wicket-taker in the game at the time but never bowled for the rest of the season.

Champion County

  • Gloucestershire

    • Annual reviews

  • John Lillywhite’s Cricketer's Companion (Green Lilly), Lillywhite, 1875
  • James Lillywhite’s Cricketers' Annual (Red Lilly), Lillywhite, 1875
  • John Wisden's Cricketers' Almanack 1875

    • References

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