The Australians won by an innings and 150 runs but Lilley had the satisfaction of stumping both Harry Trott and George Bonnor.

Essex won the toss and chose to bat first on a pitch that was "much improved by recent fine weather".

Fast bowler Charles Kortright was outstanding for Essex, taking 8/94 including Lilley who was trapped lbw.

Team captain Herbert Bainbridge led the defence with 111 and Lilley scored 34 before he was bowled by Walter Mead.

[7][8] In his second Championship match a week later, Lilley scored 139 in Warwickshire's first innings total of 305 against Derbyshire at Edgbaston.

[13] Lilley last played for Warwickshire in July 1911, retiring in "early August"[14] and the county went on to win the championship that year.

[15] After his retirement, Lilley settled in Bristol and was a member of the special advisory committee which helped to re-establish Gloucestershire County Cricket Club after the Great War.

He was, they said, "so pronounced an artist that at the end of his career his hands and fingers showed scarcely a trace of the heavy strain to which they had been subjected in taking bowling of all descriptions".

[16] Lilley was renowned as "an exceptionally fine judge of cricket" and his team captains often consulted him during matches.

[16] Pelham Warner said of him: "He was a most admirable and level-headed judge of the game, and his advice on critical occasions was almost invariably sought by a long succession of England captains".