Lives in Cricket No 27 - CB Llewellyn

41 comprising 22 first-class matches and four two-day games, bringing only eleven players who made regular appearances. In six matches for them, Buck did not once fail with the bat, and hit three fifties, as many as he scored in his 16 games for the county. His 16 wickets for the tourists cost 25.31 each, and his batting figures in their matches read 338 runs in eight innings, twice not out, 338 runs at 56.33. Wisden put him, free of the encumbrance ‘Mr’ firmly at the head of the tourists’ batting averages. Although he was ‘available’, he was not selected for the most important match of the tour, South Africans v An England XI at Lord’s in mid-July. He benefitted from playing with a team which was incomparably stronger than his county, who again finished at the foot of the County Championship table. His seasonal figures overall read, in 25 first-class matches: 823 runs at 21.65; 65 wickets at 31.86, and 25 catches, perhaps because he sometimes fielded close to the wicket. Almost respectable. ‘Not Quite As Sharp As He Used To Be’