Lives in Cricket No 27 - CB Llewellyn

32 over Sussex for only 72. Then … Hampshire collapsed leaving their visitors 147 to win, which they achieved at the cost of only two wickets. Again, he turned in a top-class performance against Warwickshire at Dean Park, Bournemouth, in the course of which he opened both the batting and bowling. His 53 in the first innings, which was the only substantial score for Hampshire in the match, gave them a useful lead of 32 at the halfway stage, while his performances with the ball were almost beyond praise: 25.4-8-56-6 and 34.4-12- 72-6, giving a match aggregate of twelve for 128 off 60.2 overs. Yet, on the second evening, Hampshire’s score was 99 for eight and next morning they were dismissed for 112, and lost by eight runs. So, mercifully, ended Hampshire’s fixture list; but Buck’s season continued with an unsuccessful appearance for eleven Players of England against the Australians at Harrogate. He made a lengthy journey only to score 2 and 17, and had only one victim while conceding 80 runs; he would have been pleased at that single success – the scalp was Warwick Armstrong’s. There were other Festival matches after this but he didn’t appear in any of them. The Hampshire averages for 1902, published in Wisden and online in CricketArchive, show how much the county depended on him and what wretched support he received. He was one of only two players to make 15 or more championship appearances. Batting mostly in the middle order, he scored 626 runs (15.3 per cent) of the county’s 4,095 runs and he scored their only century. The next highest run total was A.S.Webb’s 430 runs. Buck scored his runs at 26.30 per dismissal; Hampshire lost their wickets overall at 15.22. As a bowler he took 94 (41.3 per cent) of Hampshire’s 228 championship dismissals. The next highest number of wickets fell to Hesketh-Prichard, who obtained 38. He took eleven of Hampshire’s 16 five-wicket returns. His wickets cost 17.67 runs apiece; Hampshire obtained their wickets overall at 22.39. And on top of all this he was the leading wicket-taker, with 71, in London County’s first-class matches. W.G. needed his batting less at Crystal Palace, so he was often in the lower order for London County. Marriage