Lives in Cricket No 27 - CB Llewellyn

71 match, at Melbourne, the home side leading by 123 on the first innings, then ran away with the game; Hill and Armstrong put on 254 for the fourth wicket, Ransford scored 95 and Trumper 87. Their total reached 578 and South Africa had to get 702 to win. They failed by 530 runs. Buck’s only victim was Clem Hill for 11 in the first innings. He was injured and neither batted nor bowled in the second half of the match. Indeed, he was not entirely fit for the remainder of the tour. Having won the series, Australia coasted home in the final Test by seven wickets to win by four matches to one. Outside the Tests, Llewellyn was, true to form, inconsistent. After a poor start he improved his chances of selection for the Test matches by scoring 31 and 88 not out against Queensland batting at No.9 in the second innings and adding 138 with Schwarz for the ninth wicket. He followed this up with scores of 50 and 42 against an Australian Eleven at Brisbane four days before the start of the First Test match at Sydney, beginning on 9 December 1910. Up to then though, he had secured only three victims with the ball. Was his captain, Percy Sherwell, reserving him as a secret weapon, or was he mistrustful of a bowler whom he had not seen perform since the South Africans toured the United Kingdom in 1907? Llewellyn did not increase his total of wickets in the First Test; fortunately, in the only game of consequence played between the First and Second Tests, against the Combined Universities, over three days at the University Oval, Sydney, he hit up 148 not out and dismissed six of the students for 73 runs. Two of his victims, E.P.Barbour and R.B.Minnett, went on to play first-class cricket, and the latter represented Australia, while of the others, C.E.Dolling, A.E.V.Hartkopf and R.J.A.Massie were all first-class performers, but the match was ruled not first-class. After the triumphant outcome of the Third Test, the South Africans crossed the straits to Tasmania, where in their second match at Hobart, Llewellyn returned analyses of 24.5-6-50-7, the last wicket of which was his 1,000th in first-class cricket, and 22- 4-66-3, giving him ten for 116 in the match. A week later, back on the mainland against Fifteen of Ballarat, he hit up 65 and seized 17 wickets for 86 in the two innings. By now, at the beginning of February 1911 he was handicapped by his injury from the Fourth Test, but in the final important fixture of the tour he added 93 for the last wicket against South Australia at Adelaide in the match beginning on 10 March. Llewellyn and his captain had made a habit of long last-wicket combinations. Australia Fair: The Triumph of Trumper