Controversies in 1900

2 incidents documented

W.G. Grace's London County Experiment — Crystal Palace, 1900-1908

London County, English first-class counties

1900-04-15

In 1900 W.G. Grace, then 51, took up an offer from the Crystal Palace Company to run a first-class cricket club at Sydenham. London County CC played first-class matches from 1900 to 1904 (their friendly status meant they could not enter the County Championship), then declined as Grace aged. The whole venture closed in 1908 — the same year Grace played his last first-class match.

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⭐Mild

How Bosanquet Invented the Googly — Twisti-Twosti and the Spinning Club

Middlesex, Leicestershire

1900-07-20

Bernard Bosanquet developed the googly — a leg-spinner's wrong'un that spins from off to leg — from a parlour game called 'Twisti-Twosti' played around 1897 with a tennis ball on a billiard table. He bowled the delivery in first-class cricket for Middlesex v Leicestershire at Lord's in July 1900, dismissing one batsman 'after four bounces'. Within five years it had revolutionised spin bowling.

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