Hobbs finally breaks WG Grace’s record for first-class hundreds – archive, 19 August 1925

19 August 1925: The Surrey batsman achieves his lifelong ambition, surpassing the long-preserved record of the ‘grand old man’ of the summer gameThe name of Dr WG Grace no longer attaches to that particular cricket record respecting innings of a hundred and over, for batting a second time against Somerset, at Taunton yesterday, JB Hobbs scored his 127th three-figure innings. Thus almost within 24 hours the great Surrey batsman has equalled and surpassed the long-preserved record of t