Lives in Cricket No 11 - CP Lewis

playing in an exhibition match when it finished, involving the same players in a different combination called East v West Wales. He played for the West in this match, scoring 16 and 50 and taking seven wickets in an innings. Soon after he was again invited to play for Breconshire as they met Monmouthshire in Newport. He was out for 0 in the first innings, but he made Monmouthshire pay with an unbeaten 131 in the second. There were also three wickets in each innings. Lewis also accepted invitations to guest for other teams during his summer vacations. He played for Cardiff as a guest against the Welsh Wanderers – a team originally put together by J.T.D. Llewelyn for ‘missionary’ work in the more remote parts of Wales – before joining the Wanderers team to meet Breconshire. He took three wickets and scored 9 and 80 – the latter probably when the match was dead, as Breconshire won on first innings with no time for a second innings conclusion. A Gentleman of South Wales 73 A ‘carte de visite’ for the Angel Hotel in Cardiff, showing the grounds of Cardiff Castle to the left and those of the Arms Park to the right. By the 1880s this area had become the epicentre of cricket in South Wales.