Basil Arthur Firebrace Grieve (28 May 1864 – 19 November 1917) was a cricketer who played two cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

 Test match

Test cricket

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es for England during the England tour of South Africa in 1888–89

History of cricket in South Africa to 1918

This article describes the history of South African cricket from its known beginnings until the end of the First World War in 1918.First-class cricket was introduced to South Africa in the 1888-89 season with the arrival of the first English touring team and the presentation by Sir Donald Currie of...

. The games represent the first two first-class cricket

First-class cricket

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 games played in South Africa.

Born in Kilburn, Middlesex

Middlesex

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, Grieve was educated at Harrow

Harrow School

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 and Trinity College, Cambridge

Trinity College, Cambridge

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. As a cricketer, he was no better than a club cricketer, and was a fine medium-paced opening bowler for Harrow and the Marylebone Cricket Club

Marylebone Cricket Club

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. He did not bowl in the two Tests he played, and was only selected for the 1888-9 England tour after it was decided that a full-strength team would be far too strong for the Springboks. This was found to be true: though the England side was no better than that of a weak county side, it still won handsomely.

Grieve was a wine merchant by trade. He died in Eastbourne

Eastbourne

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, Sussex

Sussex

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