Lives in Cricket No 27 - CB Llewellyn

29 tremendous hiding to Hampshire, but he returned to the side at Bath for the match beginning on 2 June, which Somerset won easily by ten wickets after they had routed Hampshire for 97 in the first innings, to which Buck contributed 47. Almost forty overs in the match brought him five wickets for 100 runs. Another five- wicket return, at the cost of 98 runs, followed in a rain-ruined game at Worcester, as the result of 41.1 overs of hard labour. Then, returning to Crystal Palace for London County against Leicestershire, his analysis in the Midland county’s first innings was 54.1-22-95-4. This was heavy work, but in his fifty-fourth year, W.G. bowled 40 overs to take three wickets for 52! The conditions at this period were miserable – only 105 minutes play was possible in the Lord’s Test – but Llewellyn lent a little shine to Hampshire’s draw with Leicestershire, in which play was possible only on the third day, with analyses of 22-11-35-7 and 9-3-20-3. He then went back to London County to return figures of 21-7-55-9 and 15-0-54- 5 against Cambridge University in cold, wet conditions at Crystal Palace. The ‘nine-for’ was the best return of his first-class career and included several undergraduates of modest batting aptitude, Marriage The sides in the game London County v Cambridge University played at Crystal Palace in June 1902. Back row: E.F.Penn, J.Gilman, C.H.M.Ebden, C.E.Winter, P.R.May, J.H.Board, H.V.Hesketh-Prichard, L.Walker, W.Smith, A.E.Lawton, W.A.J.West (umpire). Middle row: R.N.R.Blaker, W.L.Murdoch, E.R.Wilson, W.G.Grace, E.M.Dowson, L.O.S.Poidevin, L.V.Harper, T.Mycroft (umpire). Front row: S.H.Day, F.B.Wilson, C.B.Llewellyn, G.Howard-Smith, R.M.Bell. Buck took nine for 53 in the students’ second innings, his best return in first-class cricket. His side lost.