Those pearly gates

THOSE who knew him will never look at the classic sward of Lord’s without an occasional vision of the great cricketer. He was, and will remain, the very impersonation of cricket,’ wrote Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in , marking the death of Dr W. G. Grace on October 23, 1915. Grace had lived through what has come to be regarded as cricket’s golden age, ending with the First World War and his own