Lives in Cricket No 27 - CB Llewellyn

25 Marriage Hampshire also profited by the presence in the side that season of Captain J.G.Greig, home on leave from his service in the Indian Army. After batting inconsistently in some of his earlier matches, he earned fame in the following Hampshire fixture against Lancashire at Aigburth, Liverpool, beginning on 10 June. He did well enough; scoring 47 not out out of his team’s total of 106 in their first innings; at their second attempt, which they started when 307 in arrears, he played the innings of his life, batting right through Hampshire’s second attempt. Small in physique, he scored principally by late cuts; he was at the crease for five hours and 20 minutes for 249 not out, and achieved an honourable draw when rain ended play. Buck, who totalled 38, helped him add 56 for the second wicket, while numbers 10 and 11 stayed while 151 were added. This was a particularly strenuous time for Buck. At the beginning of July he claimed 14 Worcestershire victims for 171 runs and top-scored with 34 in Hampshire’s first innings, but Worcester won by 91 runs. Later in the month his eight Leicestershire wickets, at the cost of 72 runs, his best innings analysis in the Championship, saw Hampshire safely home by 121 after they had been 70 behind on the first innings, in spite of a century by Greig. Against Somerset at Portsmouth, he was dismissed for a pair, but with five for 89 played a major part in another Hampshire victory. He had five wickets for 146 in a drawn match with Sussex at Hove at the end of July; he bowled unchanged for his 36 overs. In 73.2 overs in the next match, ten Surrey batsmen fell to him for 139 at the county ground in another draw. In 68 overs at Derby he had eight wickets, but at the cost of 195 runs, and he was in at the kill when Hampshire, with a major contribution from Sprot (130), scored the 293 required for the loss of five wickets. When Yorkshire accumulated 439 at Harrogate, to win by an innings, Buck bowled 40.4 overs; his four wickets cost 167 and when Sussex were victorious at Portsmouth, he bowled in their two innings 60.2 overs to take six for 89 and six for 119, but most of the Hampshire batsmen could make little of Fred Tate and they lost by 52 runs. The pressure on him continued to be unrelenting; at the Angel Ground, Tonbridge, in the match beginning on 19 August, Kent amassed 534; in 44.1 overs Llewellyn captured five wickets for 187. The home side won handsomely by an innings and 124. His hard work was rewarded by five Somerset wickets in each innings of the match at Taunton, which commenced on 22 August. The