Lives in Cricket No 44 - LCH Palairet

future refusal to play in representative games and turning down a chance to tour Australia would indicate it was not his main priority in life. Over time the authorities seemed to stop asking him to play. He stayed on at Scarborough to play for CI Thornton’s eleven against Yorkshire; the match was drawn and Lionel was bowled in each innings by Ted Wainwright (for 11 and 18). Despite this he had a fine season; in all matches he scored 1,126 runs at 41.70, and for most of the season scored consistently well. It appears Lionel then spent a short while in Scotland with a team from Wiltshire. He played a two day game for Fetteresso Castle against Stonehaven Thistle and took eight wickets in the match; despite this his team lost. LCH’s natural batting stance Marriage, family, work and Somerset 61