 His bowling average was 24.01; he had 5 wickets in an innings 3 times and 10 wickets in a match once.Grace made 25 first-class appearances in 1897, scoring 1,532 runs, with a highest score of 131, at an average of 39.28 with 4 centuries and 7 half-centuries.In the field, he took 15 catches and 56 wickets with a best analysis of 6–36.