| Personal information | |||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Ivor Leroy Phillips | ||||||||||||||
| Born | (1935-08-03)3 August 1935 Queenstown, South Africa | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 7 January 2024(2024-01-07) (aged 88) | ||||||||||||||
| 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 (3 August 1935 – 7 January 2024) was a South African cricketer and tennis player.
Biography
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 lived in Port Alfred. They had four children.[1] Their sons James and Leroy played first-class cricket in South Africa.[4]
Phillips died on 7 January 2024, at the age of 88.[5]
References
- Ford, Bob (16 November 2017). "From Tarkastad's dusty courts to Wimbledon lush". PressReader. Retrieved 30 November 2022.
- Colin Bryden, All-Rounder: The Buster Farrer Story, Aloe Publishing, Kidd's Beach, 2013, pp. 35–36.
- "Ivor Phillips". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 12 December 2020.
- "Ivor Phillips". CricketArchive. Retrieved 30 November 2022.
- "Phillips, Ivor Leroy". Daily Dispatch. Retrieved 26 February 2025.