- Douglas Phipps
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Personal information Full name Douglas David Phipps Born 27 January 1934
Edmonton, Middlesex, EnglandBatting style Right-hand Bowling style Right-arm fast-medium Domestic team information Years Team 1964 Combined Services 1956 Norfolk 1952–1953 Buckinghamshire Career statistics Competition First-class Matches 1 Runs scored 15 Batting average 7.50 100s/50s –/– Top score 15 Balls bowled 90 Wickets 1 Bowling average 53.00 5 wickets in innings – 10 wickets in match – Best bowling 1/53 Catches/stumpings 1/– Source: Cricinfo, 26 May 2011 Douglas David Phipps (born 27 July 1934) is a former English cricketer and British Army officer. Phipps was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm fast-medium. He was born in Edmonton, Middlesex. He was educated at Mill Hill School, before enlisting in the British Army, where he undertook training at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.[1]
Palmer made his debut for Buckinghamshire in the 1952 Minor Counties Championship against Bedfordshire. He played Minor counties cricket for Buckinghamshire from 1952 to 1953, before playing for the Essex Second XI from 1956 to 1958 and Norfolk in 1956.[2]
Palmer made his only first-class appearance for a Combined Services team against Cambridge University in 1964.[3] In this match, he was dimissed for a duck in the Combined Services first-innings by Roy Kerslake. In their second-innings, he scored 15 runs before being dismissed by the same bowler. With the ball, he took a single wicket, that of Tony Windows for the cost of 53 runs from 12 overs.[4]
References
- ^ "Teams Douglas Phipps played for". CricketArchive. http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/32/32056/all_teams.html. Retrieved 26 May 2011.
- ^ "Minor Counties Championship Matches played by Douglas Phipps". CricketArchive. http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/32/32056/Minor_Counties_Championship_Matches.html. Retrieved 26 May 2011.
- ^ "First-Class Matches played by Douglas Phipps". CricketArchive. http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/32/32056/First-Class_Matches.html. Retrieved 26 May 2011.
- ^ "Combined Services v Cambridge University, 1964". CricketArchive. http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/26/26804.html. Retrieved 26 May 2011.
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Categories:- 1934 births
- Living people
- People from Edmonton, London
- Old Millfieldians
- Sandhurst graduates
- Royal Artillery officers
- English cricketers
- Buckinghamshire cricketers
- Norfolk cricketers
- Combined Services cricketers
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