Lives in Cricket No 27 - CB Llewellyn

43 matter is hard to determine, but perhaps we should give greater recognition to Buck as a pioneer of left-arm wrist-spin bowling. Sadly it has not been possible to trace a chain of events linking Buck to his successors in Achong, Leyland, Fleetwood-Smith, Walsh and Co. Schwarz played comparatively little for Middlesex in the seasons of 1901 to 1905. In 14 matches he captured no more than seven victims and he was selected chiefly as a batsman for the South African team in England in 1904. He did not bowl until the fourth match, when he skittled out five Oxford University players in 7.2 overs for only 27. His career and fame as a googly bowler were very soon established and that season he captured 65 wickets at 18.26 each; in England three years later his figures were 137 at only 11.79. It is probable that Schwarz and Buck were thrown together most in the 1904 season; they first played together for the South Africans against MCC at Lord’s, when Schwarz did not bowl in a match restricted to an innings apiece, as there was no play on the third day. At Bristol in the match beginning 13 June, they both participated for the tourists against Gloucestershire and in the following match against Warwickshire at Edgbaston beginning on 16 June, they each took four wickets in an innings – Buck in the first and Schwarz in the second. Against Middlesex at Lord’s four days later Schwarz seized five wickets and the match ended in a tie. At Alton, in the only first-class match to be played in the town, they were on opposing sides, but Schwarz (who bowled only 3.5 overs) had the greater opportunity to observe his protégé who sent down 36.5 overs for Hampshire and captured five wickets for 160. At Hove, in a fixture which started on 22 August, both were in the tourists’ team which played a high-scoring match against Sussex, in which only ten wickets fell; Schwarz delivered 15 overs and Llewellyn only five. He again played with Schwarz for the South Africans, against South of England, in the Festival match at Hastings, starting on 5 September 1904, in which his mentor returned the analysis of 19.3-3-68-6 in the first innings of the South of England. As Schwarz made a name as a googly bowler only in the early part of 1904 and the two cricketers did not have the opportunity to observe each other regularly between that summer and the Australian season of 1910/11, when they both toured the dominion with South Africa, we can plump for the season of 1904 as the one when Schwarz taught Buck the chinaman, and Buck’s Llewellyn and the Chinaman