He played two matches for MCC against Wales in 1929 and 1930 and a game for the Free Foresters against the Netherlands in 1931.
He played 101 innings in 72 matches for Derbyshire with a highest score of 60 and an average of 11.80.
[1] Buckston had been a member of the Eton Officers' Training Corps, and with the outbreak of the Second World War imminent, he was given an emergency commission as second lieutenant in the Royal Artillery on 2 September 1939.
[2] He served with the local Territorial Army light anti-aircraft regiment, he relinquished his commission on 23 November 1942, by which time he was a war substantive lieutenant; he was granted the rank of captain.
[9] He collapsed and died at the wheel of his car near Burton upon Trent at the age of 58.