Personal information | |||||||||||||||
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Full name | Ivor Leroy Phillips | ||||||||||||||
Born | Queenstown, South Africa | 3 August 1935||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||
Relations |
Leroy Phillips (son) James Phillips (son) | ||||||||||||||
Domestic team information | |||||||||||||||
Years | Team | ||||||||||||||
1957/58–1958/59 | Border | ||||||||||||||
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Source:
Cricinfo, 1 December 2022 |
Ivor Leroy Phillips (born 3 August 1935) is a South African former cricketer and tennis player.
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]
Personal information | |||||||||||||||
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Full name | Ivor Leroy Phillips | ||||||||||||||
Born | Queenstown, South Africa | 3 August 1935||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||
Relations |
Leroy Phillips (son) James Phillips (son) | ||||||||||||||
Domestic team information | |||||||||||||||
Years | Team | ||||||||||||||
1957/58–1958/59 | Border | ||||||||||||||
Career statistics | |||||||||||||||
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Source:
Cricinfo, 1 December 2022 |
Ivor Leroy Phillips (born 3 August 1935) is a South African former cricketer and tennis player.
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]