For this success he became Hampshire's regular keeper, and performed a noted stumping of Jack Hobbs in 1914.
[1] Livsey's debut for Hampshire came on 30 June 1913 against Oxford University CC at the County Ground, Southampton.
[6] The most famous of these,[1] of Surrey player Jack Hobbs, was made on 23 July 1914 during a 3-day match at Portsmouth.
Hobbs, on three,[7] was bowled a "sharply lifting ball" by Alec Kennedy which was passing wide of leg stump.
During his military career he played three cricket matches in India, across the winters of 1915–16, 1917–18 and 1918–19,[8] scoring a total of 18 runs and taking two catches and completing three stumpings throughout.
[1] He returned for the 1920 season, however, and enjoyed greater form with the bat: playing 26 matches and scoring 285 runs at 12.95.
[6] The latter score formed part of a 192 partnership with Horace Alexander William Bowell against Worcestershire on 10 August 1921.
[6] During this season Livsey forged a partnership of 177 with George Brown against Warwickshire, who had scored 223 in their first innings and bowled Hampshire out for 15.
Across 31 matches, Livsey scored 896 runs, including his only other first-class century, 109* against Kent in Dover on 29 June 1928.
[6] His final season in domestic cricket was equally successful with the gloves, taking 44 catches and completing 30 stumpings from 29 matches, however his form with the bat decreased, passing 50 only once and scoring 556 at 13.56.