Lives in Cricket No 27 - CB Llewellyn

50 lost by an innings. He bowled without reward in three further innings – as fifth change in one instance – before making his presence felt in the last phase of the match against Gloucestershire at Cheltenham College. After Hampshire had obtained a first innings lead of 34 in what turned out to be for the most part a low-scoring match, and had seized three early wickets towards the end of the second day, Gilbert Jessop joined F.H. Bateman-Champain with the score at 60. They had added 101 by close of play and advanced the Gloucestershire total to 207, when Buck dismissed Jessop for 92. This was the prelude to a startling collapse, as he quickly added four more victims, including Bateman-Champain. His final analysis was 7.3- 0-21-5, but Hampshire, set 203 for victory, were short by 83 when their last man was dismissed. Llewellyn’s scores in that match totalled only 11 and 17, and in his final six innings of the season he scraped together only 81 runs. With the ball he secured three wickets in an innings on three occasions at quite low cost, so that at the season’s end he finished comfortably ahead of the other regular members of the championship attack with 43 victims at an average of 20.65. With the bat, the season was, apart from the three innings mentioned above, a disaster. He failed to reach double figures in 16 visits to the crease and in seventeen championship matches scored 487 runs at a dismal 16.79, half the figure of the previous season. There were no Bournemouth festival matches at the end of the season, nor was he invited to Hastings, Scarborough, or even Uttoxeter. The South African tourists, this time fifteen strong, found no need to call on his services. Triumph in England