Lives in Cricket No 44 - LCH Palairet

67 in three quarters of an hour. The score rose to 120 in an hour and a quarter, before he was caught behind for 70 off Haigh. The press noted ‘his innings was full of cuts and some splendid drives which he always kept on the ground’. Somerset closed on 302. Yorkshire only headed this by 26 on their first innings. Going in a second time Lionel was first out for 25; Somerset struggled to 176 and lost easily by seven wickets. The county fared worse as they moved onto Manchester. Somerset could only post 166 in their first innings and Lancashire ran up 580, with four players making a century. Trailing by 414, Lionel and Braund opened and attacked from the first ball. The partnership soon went to 75, in only 40 minutes, when Braund was dismissed for 25. Lionel soon reached his 40 in as many minutes. He continued in fine fashion until he was beaten by a ‘bailer’ fromAlexander Kermode; he had made 81 in 70 minutes. Somerset went on to lose by an innings. Lionel then played a couple of non-first class matches for the MCC; he made 105 in the win over Wiltshire and 27 and 21 in the draw against Glamorgan. He also took three wickets in the match with his lobs. Somerset were then beaten by an innings by the touring South Africans, Lionel, (five and one) having a poor match, a far cry from the victory against them in 1901. Somerset restored pride in the next game with an easy 222-run win over Hampshire in a high-scoring match, with well over 1,100 runs scored. Lionel contributed a useful 57 in the first innings. Lewis (101 and 97) narrowly missed being the first player to score a century in each innings for Somerset. Over the next five games Lionel failed to pass 50, and the team managed only one win, over Surrey at the Oval by an innings. His next innings of any note was against Kent at Taunton. After an innings each Kent had a slender lead of 16; however at their second attempt they ran up 401, setting Somerset an unlikely 418 to win, with about five hours left. Somerset’s only hope was to play for a draw. For some reason Woods changed the batting order, which proved a bad move, as within half an hour they had been reduced to 20 for four. Braund batting at six and Lionel at five were now together. Both batted freely and within 95 minutes had added 116 for the fifth wicket. Lionel fell for 79, having 1902 and one more good season 92