Lives in Cricket No 27 - CB Llewellyn

94 highest aggregate of the season, at an average of 31.71. His club’s averages display the mediocrity of the rest of the side: Batting I NO Runs HS Ave C.B.Llewellyn 24 3 666 135* 31.71 J.A.Ramsbottom 21 0 419 64 19.96 G.Parker 11 0 143 54 13.00 Bowling O M R W Ave C.B.Llewellyn 388 63 1198 111 10.79 W.Dickinson 103.4 20 291 21 13.85 S.Smith 203 28 469 33 14.21 The year 1923 began with a special meeting of the League Committee to discuss the imposition of a maximum wage on professionals. They considered a report from their secretary on the sums of money being paid to the League professionals. The agreements for 1923 can be summarized. Three clubs were to pay their professionals £10 10s 0d per week; one club was to pay its professional £12 a week Three clubs had arranged payments at £16 weekly, while two paid over £16. It is not difficult to conclude that Nelson were paying the top salary for Ted McDonald, who had scattered English wickets for Australia in the two preceding Test series. The author of the History of the Lancashire League surmises that Buck was possibly the other recipient at the highest rate. The year also included a remarkable performance against Accrington, by Vic Norbury for East Lancashire, on 28 June in the second round of the Worsley Cup. After his spell in the Hampshire side between 1905 and 1908, Vic Norbury made a glorious working life in league cricket which continued until 1935. This day must have been the acme of his cricket life, as he blasted the bowling of Buck and his colleagues to the four winds to pile up 172. In 84 overs, East Lancs created a record score of 396. Norbury was particularly severe on Buck, though all the members of the Accrington attack suffered. The scoresheet tells its own tale: East Lancashire 396 all out, off 84.2 overs; Accrington 159 all out, off 45.2 overs. In The Cricketer Annual for 1923/24, G.A.Brooking told his readers that Buck had not been in the best of health. The malaise, whatever it was, did not handicap him with the ball, notwithstanding Norbury’s assault, as bowling 45 overs more than in 1922, he again captured over a hundred wickets: 106 at an average of 9.88. Only Ted McDonald joined him in reaching Family Arrangements