Ivor_Phillips_(cricketer)

Ivor Phillips (cricketer)

Ivor Phillips (cricketer)

South African cricketer

Ivor Leroy Phillips (born 3 August 1935) is a South African former cricketer and tennis player.

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Phillips attended Queen's College in Queenstown, where he excelled at sports. He was offered a scholarship to Stellenbosch University, but instead returned to work on the family farm at Tarkastad.[1] Among a group of young South African tennis players, including his fellow Border cricketer Buster Farrer, Phillips competed at the 1956 Wimbledon Championships.[1] He and Farrer won their first-round match in the men's doubles, but lost in the second.[2]

Phillips played as a middle-order batsman in three first-class matches for Border in 1957–58 and 1958–59.[3][4] He played for the South African Country Districts XI for 19 years, captaining them for 16 years.[1]

He later farmed in the Molteno district before retiring in 1999. He and his wife Leslie-Anne live in Port Alfred. They have four children.[1] Their sons James and Leroy played first-class cricket in South Africa.[4]

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References

  1. [1]
    Ford, Bob (16 November 2017). "From Tarkastad's dusty courts to Wimbledon lush". PressReader. Retrieved 30 November 2022.
  2. [2]
    Colin Bryden, All-Rounder: The Buster Farrer Story, Aloe Publishing, Kidd's Beach, 2013, pp. 35–36.
  3. [3]
    "Ivor Phillips". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 12 December 2020.
  4. [4]
    "Ivor Phillips". CricketArchive. Retrieved 30 November 2022.
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