Lives in Cricket No 27 - CB Llewellyn

61 Chapter Eleven Achievement and Mystery The 1910 season was for Llewellyn divided into three sections. In May, he collected 22 wickets; his outstanding performance was the capture of six wickets for 50 for MCC against Leicestershire at Lord’s in his second engagement, which he followed up by hitting a brilliant, faultless century in his second innings – but he was still on the losing side. His useful allround performance, 60 runs and five wickets in the match, contributed to a nine-wicket defeat of Gloucestershire at Southampton. Three matches later Hampshire’s defeat by Surrey at The Oval in early June was not his fault, as he took five for 66 in the first innings and a further three wickets in the second. This was the beginning of his season’s second phase; he played a major part in the crushing defeat of Somerset at Aldershot. He was not called upon to bat, as Hampshire lost only four wickets before declaring, but none of the visitors, with the exception of Len Braund, could cope with his bowling, as he returned these figures of 24.5-5-61-6 and 21-7-45-7, thirteen wickets in all, which enabled Hampshire to win by an innings and 36 runs. He followed with another ten-wicket haul at Old Trafford, but this time against much tougher opposition. His analyses were seven for 136, and three for 100, with Johnny Tyldesley scoring a century in each innings, before his dismissal both times by Llewellyn, who played a vigorous innings of 56 in a losing cause. Five wickets fell to him at Worcester, but at a cost of 162; the home county amassed 511 to win by an innings. After a pleasant interval playing for MCC against Oxford University at Lord’s, when 11 of the students fell to him for 130, he turned in an even more prestigious performance against the strong Middlesex batting order. Around this period – the last week in June – the weather was changeable and the visitors to the United Services Recreation Ground, Portsmouth, secured an advantage by scoring 367 on the first day, E.S.Litteljohn hitting up 129 in 140 minutes, to which George Brown responded with 106 not out in 110 minutes. He and Alec Kennedy added 97 for the last wicket, so Hampshire finished