Walter Phillips (cricketer)

Walter Phillips (1 April 1881 – 21 June 1948) was an English first-class cricketer.

Walter Phillips
Personal information
Born(1881-04-01)1 April 1881
West Malling, Kent
Died21 June 1948(1948-06-21) (aged 67)
Mereworth, Kent
BattingRight-handed
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1903Kent
FC debut28 May 1903 Kent v MCC
Last FC27 June 1912 HDG Leveson's XI v Cambridge University
Career statistics
Competition First-class
Matches 2
Runs scored 83
Batting average 20.75
100s/50s 0/1
Top score 55
Catches/stumpings 2/–
Source: CricInfo, 8 June 2022

Phillips was born at West Malling in Kent, the son of Thomas and Elizabeth Lambert Phillips (née Hayward). His father was a farmer, brewer and miller and operated a number of breweries with tied public houses, including the Abbey Brewery in West Malling.[1][2][3] Phillips was educated at Eastbourne College where he played cricket for the school XI for two years, scoring 386 runs and taking 66 wickets in 1897, his final year at school.[1][4]

Phillips worked as a hop factor and played club cricket as a "highly regarded batsman" for Bickley Park, Bromley and The Mote.[1] He played in two first-class matches. In the first, a 1903 fixture for Kent County Cricket Club against MCC at Lord's, he scored a total of three runs. His other top-level match came in 1912 for HDG Leveson-Gower's XI against Cambridge University at Eastbourne, scoring 55 and 25 runs. He also played 16 Second XI matches for Kent between 1901 and 1911.[1][5]

In about 1908 Phillips married Beatrice Sanders from Liverpool. He died in 1948 at Mereworth in Kent; he was aged 67.[5][6]

References
  1. Carlaw D (2020) Kent County Cricketers A to Z. Part One: 1806–1914 (revised edition), pp. 447. (Available online at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 2020-12-21.)
  2. Barber N (1994) A century of British brewers, 1890–1990, p. 47. Brewery History Society. ISBN 9781873966044
  3. Abbey Brewery, Exploring Kent's Past, Kent County Council. Retrieved 2022-06-08.
  4. Ford WJ (1898) Public Schools Cricket in 1897, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, 1898, pp. 364–365. London: John Wisden.
  5. Walter Phillips, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2020-06-04. (subscription required)
  6. Walter Phillips, CricInfo. Retrieved 2022-06-08.


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