Roy Kilner's match

By Brian Sanderson

 Carrying on with my recent scorecard purchases . This one is 

at Brighton on the 27 August till the 30 August  and was Yorkshire

last Championship match for 1927 and it would turn out to be Roy

Kilner's last Championship match.

Sussex wo the toss and batted with Edward Bowley and Maurice 

Tate opening the batting against Robinson and Macauley.

Bowley who played for Sussex from 1912 to 1934 in a total

of 458 matches . In this match he reached 2000 runs for the 

season before been caught by Holmes of Kilner for 37 after

batting for an hour and three quarters. Yorkshire bowlers 

bowled 134 .5 overs for Sussex to score   221.

Another interesting Sussex player was Rev.F.B.R.Browne.

who played 49 matches from 1919 to 1932. He was a fast 

medium bowler who bowled off the wrong foot and earned his

soubriquet 'Tishy'after a crossed legged racehorse of the time.

Yorkshire batted for six hours to gain a lead of 81.Kilner 

reached his highest score of the season with 91 not out 

in three hours and three quarters and six 4's.

Sussex were all out at ten minutes to four for 120 .Kilner

was very largely responsible for the quick finish ,his bowling

analysis being remarkable 

21-14- 21-5 

Later that evening Yorkshire won by nine wickets

Yorkshire moved on to Scarborough and finished third in

the Championship.. 

Roy Kilner caught a bug in India in 1928 and he died on

the 6 April 1928  and 100000 people lined the streets of 

Wombwell for his funeral.