Lives in Cricket No 27 - CB Llewellyn

54 Later in the year, the magazine Cricket , in its issue of 30 July 1908, also enthused about his good service during the past decade and continued: By watching him in the field, it would be quite impossible to tell whether he was on the losing or the winning side. Whatever the state of the game he always does his best, evidently recognising the fact that a match is never won until the last ball has been bowled … if Llewellyn had belonged to a stronger county, he would probably have made a greater name for himself, for the heavy work which has so frequently fallen to his lot must occasionally have affected his play to no small extent. When it came to the great day, Kent confirmed that there were disadvantages in opposing such a side; after an opening partnership of 76 between Alec Bowell (34) and A.C.Johnston (97), Hampshire were outplayed. By consistent batting Kent reached 323 and a lead of 55. At the end of the second day, Hampshire had lost four wickets and they were decisively beaten before lunch on the Saturday. Buck, at No.3, scored 34 and nine, and as the sixth bowler captured three wickets for 20 in Kent’s first innings, and took the only wicket to fall in the second. Although the match did not quite run its full course, it brought Buck £500 net – £28,500 is the equivalent value in 2012: £500 The Beneficiary A curiosity. The Hampshire side of 1908, ready for a football match, perhaps connected with Buck’s benefit. Standing (l to r): J.A.Newman, C.Mantell, G.Brown, A.S.Kennedy, D.V.Norbury, W.T.Langford, Dean. Seated: Baker, E.R.Remnant, J.Stone, H.A.W.Bowell, C.P.Mead, C.B.Llewellyn.