Elliot Tillard

Who was Elliot Tillard?

Elliot Dowell Tillard played first-class cricket for the Europeans cricket team in India and for Somerset. 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 came in the match against Gloucestershire at Taunton, when he made 39 in the first innings and followed with 29 in the second.

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.