Lives in Cricket No 27 - CB Llewellyn

31 high hopes of giving an out-of-the-ordinary performance against their next opponents, the Australians, but it did not materialise. He scored two and four and though he took four wickets, those of the openers, Trumper and Duff, as well as Darling and Noble, at 129 runs they cost nearly six runs an over, and the latter pair each achieved three figures. Darling’s 116 included 5 sixes and took only 80 minutes; Noble’s 113 took two and a quarter hours. Only Poore scored higher than the thirties; going in first wicket down in the second innings, he remained undefeated on 62 when the last man fell. The Australians won by an innings and 79 runs. A week without match play and the continuing presence of Poore ought to have bucked up Hampshire, but with totals of 110 and 143, they subsided to Worcestershire at Portsmouth, in spite of Llewellyn’s analysis of 29.5-7-93-6 . Again, against Leicestershire at Aylestone Road his score of 74, in opening the first innings, and analyses of 28.2-9-65-6 and 12-1-33-3 could not prevent Leicestershire fromwinning by six wickets. There followed another defeat, by Sussex at Southampton. Buck top-scored with 39 out of his county’s total of 95, and his four wickets for 29 supported H.V.Hesketh-Prichard, who dismissed six victims for 39, in rolling Marriage Llewellyn (right) with three London County colleagues, Jack Board, Joe Vine and Len Braund, at Crystal Palace in 1902. Between them these four played in 1,771 first-class matches, including 46 Tests.