WG Grace, Don Bradman and the race to 1,000 runs before the end of May | By Jo_Wisden
G was the first. Forty-six years young, in his 31st season as a first-class cricketer, and he didn’t get a hit until 9 May. By racking up nine centuries across the 1895 campaign, the game’s first great icon reached three figures on as many occasions as he’d managed across the previous six seasons; an unexpected Indian summer in a declining career which had seen his batting average and waistline head in opposite directions.
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