Lives in Cricket No 27 - CB Llewellyn

30 Marriage but Cambridge still won. Odder still, Wisden made no reference to Llewellyn’s achievement in its match description, nor did The Times. Later there followed a series of defeats in which his county’s batting failed time and again; Kent dismissed Hampshire for 133 and 97, rendering Buck’s bowling, 40.3-18-65-3, unavailing and going on to win by nine wickets, while totals of 76 and 155 saw Hampshire to an innings defeat by Warwickshire at Edgbaston. Though his bowling gave him only two wickets at the cost of 87 runs, at least he hit 40 in his second innings, which was the highest score for Hampshire in the match. It was in the game with Somerset at Portsmouth that he showed a return to his best form, playing a hard-hitting innings of 90, and adding 114 with Victor Barton, also 90, which helped ensure a first innings lead of 130, before working his way through the Somerset batting and collecting seven wickets for 97 in the process and enabling his county to win by five wickets. The county were in poor shape at Tunbridge Wells in the match beginning on 14 July. Llewellyn’s 33 in his side’s second innings was the highest individual score of the match in their totals of 138 and 108, as Blythe, Mason and Bradley, the only members of the Kent attack to bowl more than a few overs each, took five wickets in turn. There cannot have been much wrong with the pitch as Burnup and Dillon put on 243 for the first Kent wicket and they went on to defeat Hampshire by an innings and 195 runs. In contrast a fortnight later, at Southampton, Hampshire defeated Surrey by ten wickets. This was a triumph for Llewellyn who troubled all the visiting batsmen, none of whom reached a total of 30 in the match. Put in to bat, they could score only 22 from his 100 deliveries while he took six wickets and after A.J.L.Hill had contributed 60 to Hampshire’s total of 215, Buck collected a further four victims, ensuring with Victor Barton, who took five for 43, that the home side needed only nine to win. He excelled again at Derby, in the match beginning on 4 August, dismissing five of the home side for 117. The Hampshire attack received a pasting from the Derbyshire captain, A.E.Lawton, whose 146 occupied only 90 minutes and included one six and 24 fours. When Hampshire faced a score of 373, Llewellyn entering the fray at 109 for four also scored rapidly; with the aid of 2 sixes and 11 fours his 109 took only 110 minutes, but rain washed out the third day. When the county returned to Southampton, he must have had