Warwickshire eased to an expected victory in Abu Dhabi as they saw off the MCC in the annual Champion County match by an innings and 29 runs.
The expectation of the MCC in the past made this unnecessary.
Appointed president of the MCC in 2005, and an honorary life member, Graveney played for Gloucestershire and Worcestershire.
Jan Tipper and Barb Burden tied the knot at the Metropolitan community church (MCC) in Bournemouth, Dorset, on Saturday.
Durham's bowlers wasted no time in wrapping up a comprehensive 311-run victory over MCC in the first match of the county season.
Notts, as champion county, met MCC in a no longer so traditional curtain raiser in Abu Dhabi in March played under floodlights with experimental pink balls.
It was the latter's highest competitive score of a season which started so promisingly with a century against the MCC in late March.
His eminence and his loyalty to the game led eventually to the Presidency of MCC in 2010, a rare achievement for a journalist.
He also passed 1,000 runs in a season on 20 occasions, recording more than 2,000 six times After retiring he became a BBC commentator and served as the 200th president of the MCC in 2005.
Alastair Cook began his Ashes year by top-scoring with 35 for MCC in their Twenty20 defeat against Sussex, the champions and the three-times Emirates Airline Trophy winners, in Dubai.
In its earlier avatars as the Maoist Communist Centre (MCC) in Jharkhand and Bihar, and the People's War Group PWGG) in Andhra Pradesh, the Maoists had tremendous popular support.
