 In the match against Middlesex at Lord's, he finally overhauled the highest score of 65 he had made in 1927 by scoring 71 in a very heavy defeat.In the very next match, against the New Zealanders at Bath, he improved that score again, making 98 in three hours.And then at the end of the same month of June 1931, opening the innings alongside his brother Frank, he made 113, his first century, in the game against Northamptonshire at Northampton.