London County Cricket Club

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WG Grace in the colours of London County, painted by Albert Chevallier Tayler.
WG Grace in the colours of London County, painted by Albert Chevallier Tayler.

London County Cricket Club was a short-lived cricket club founded by the Crystal Palace Company.[1] In 1898 they invited WG Grace to help them form a first-class cricket club. Grace accepted the offer and became the club's secretary, manager and captain. As a result, he severed his connection with Gloucestershire CCC during the 1899 season. The club played first-class matches from 1900 to 1904.[2][3]

The club's home ground was Crystal Palace Park in south London. Some of the best players of the time played some matches for the club while continuing to play for their usual teams, among them CB Fry, JWHT Douglas and Ranjitsinhji. However, the games were little more than exhibition games — and money-making exercises for Dr Grace — and so it quickly lost its first-class status, and with that the ability to attract the top players. It folded in 1908.

A club of the same name was founded in 2004, portraying itself as a re-founding of the original club, with the aim of identifying and developing promising young cricketers.

  1. ^ History of the Crystal Palace Company
  2. ^ Alan Gibson: The Cricket Captains of England (1989), p57.
  3. ^ Christopher Martin-Jenkins: The Wisden Book of County Cricket (1981), p441.

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