1866 English cricket season
The 1866 English cricket season saw the demise of Surrey as one of the top cricketing counties and the emergence of W. G. Grace as the game’s leading batsman with the highest first-class score since William Ward’s famous innings forty-six years beforehand. It also saw the emergence of future star slow bowler James Southerton who had already played first-class cricket on and off as a moderately successful batsman for a dozen seasons, and the first known "hundred before lunch" in first-class cricket.
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