Elliot Tillard

Elliot Tillard
Personal information
Full name Elliot Dowell Tillard
Born 22 July 1880(1880-07-22)
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England
Died 19 February 1967(1967-02-19) (aged 86)
Flexbury, Bude, Cornwall, England
Batting style Not known
Bowling style Not known
Role All-rounder
Relations See main text
Domestic team information
Years Team
1907/08–1922/23 Europeans
1912 Somerset
First-class debut 12 September 1907 Europeans v Parsees
Last First-class 13 September 1922 Europeans v Parsees
Career statistics
Competition First-class
Matches 16
Runs scored 357
Batting average 12.31
100s/50s –/–
Top score 39
Balls bowled 419
Wickets 14
Bowling average 15.78
5 wickets in innings 2
10 wickets in match
Best bowling 6/40
Catches/stumpings 3/–
Source: CricketArchive, 15 January 2011

Elliot Dowell Tillard (22 July 1880 – 19 February 1967) played first-class cricket for the Europeans cricket team in India and for Somerset.[1] He was born at Cheltenham, Gloucestershire and died at Flexbury, Bude, Cornwall.

A middle- or lower-order batsman and a fairly regular though usually not front-line bowler, Tillard's batting and bowling styles are not known. His first appearances in first-class cricket were for the Europeans team in the Bombay Presidency matches at Pune and the Bombay Triangular competition. In 1912, he was in England for the cricket season and played nine times for Somerset, playing as a batsman. His highest score in these matches (and his highest in first-class cricket) came in the match against Gloucestershire at Taunton, when he made 39 in the first innings and followed with 29 in the second.[2]

Tillard's final match for Somerset was in late July 1912; less than a month later, he was playing first-class cricket in Pune again, and in the second of two matches at the end of August 1912, and having previously taken only one first-class wicket, he took six for 40 playing for J. G. Greig's XI against the Hindus cricket team, the best bowling performance of his first-class career.[3] Tillard then appeared in only one further first-class cricket match: just over 10 years later, he played in the Bombay Quadrangular tournament for the Europeans against the Parsees cricket team and took five for 71 in the Parsees' second innings, and scored 34, his highest in India, in the Europeans' second innings.[4] As late as 1927, when he was 47, he was playing in non-first-class matches in what is now Pakistan.[5]

Family

Several of Tillard's family played first-class cricket. Tillard's father Charles Tillard played for Cambridge University and Surrey; his grandfather Edward Dowell played for Cambridge University. An uncle Avison Terry Scott played for both Cambridge University and Cambridgeshire in first-class matches; Scott's son George Arbuthnot Scott played for Cambridge University, while a second son (Tillard's cousin) Arthur Avison Scott played one first-class match for the Royal Navy cricket team.

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