Lives in Cricket No 27 - CB Llewellyn

44 erratic performances over the next few seasons tend to confirm this view. * * * * * * * The year 1905 saw an improvement in his fortunes, though successes were only sporadic. In the first half of the season, he was continually making useful scores; the highest was 77 against Surrey at Aldershot in the match beginning on 25 May, in the course of which he added 130 with Hill in a lost cause. By the mid point of the summer he had totalled 436 first-class runs at an average of 30.42; his captain E.M.Sprot, tended, however, to regard him more and more as only a change bowler, a view which was justified by results, or rather the lack of them. Only once up to 24 July did he capture more than two wickets in an innings, and the number of his victims up to then totalled only 21. Meanwhile, he had also entered on a desolate spell with the bat. His performances reached rock-bottom when Yorkshire were the visitors to Dean Park on 17 July. He batted at ten in the first innings of Hampshire and did not bowl while the Yorkshire score mounted to 491. He was surely injured or unwell as he did not play in the following fixture, also at Dean Park. Around this time, ten visits to the crease brought him only 158 Llewellyn and the Chinaman The Hampshire side which lost by an innings to Sussex at Hove in early August 1904. Standing: C.B.Llewellyn, A.S.Webb, W.T.Langford, H.Baldwin, H.A.W.Bowell, M.W.Hayter. Seated: J.Stone (wk), F.H.Bacon, R.M.Poore (capt), D.A.Steele, D.M.Evans. Buck, perhaps experimenting with wrist-spin, took none for 77 off 15 overs in the Sussex innings.