#1890s

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Charles Kortright — The Fastest Bowler of the Era and the Man Who Wouldn't Walk for W.G. Grace, 1890s

Essex, Gloucestershire

1898-07-01

Charles Jesse Kortright of Essex was generally considered the fastest bowler of the Victorian era — quicker, contemporaries said, than Tom Richardson or Arthur Mold. He never played a Test, but his 1898 confrontation with W.G. Grace at Leyton produced one of cricket's most-quoted exchanges: when Grace declined to walk despite being plumb out, Kortright eventually uprooted two stumps and remarked, 'Surely you're not going, Doc? There's still one stump standing.'

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Lord Hawke's Winter Pay — How Yorkshire's Captain Reformed the Lot of the Professional Cricketer, 1890s

Yorkshire

1894-12-01

Lord Hawke captained Yorkshire from 1883 to 1910, taking the side from a hard-drinking ungovernable team to four County Championships in the 1890s. His most enduring change had nothing to do with on-field tactics: he introduced winter pay for professionals (who until then earned only during the summer), made benefit money trustee-managed for long-term security, and dismissed players he felt failed in their conduct. Bobby Peel's 1897 sacking was the most famous case.

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