Death
"Grout ignored doctor's warnings about his weak heart and kept on playing until he was 39 - and died from a heart attack less than three years later." His obituary in Wisden commented:
"Grout entered hospital only two days before his death. A Brisbane doctor was afterwards reported as saying that Grout knew that he might collapse at any time during the last four years of his Test career and that he took part in the Australian tour of the West Indies only a few months after a heart attack in 1964. Yet Wally's unfailingly cheerful demeanour gave no inkling that there might be anything amiss with him."
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