William Phillips (umpire)
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William Phillips was a first class cricket
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umpire. He was born in Manchester in 1876 and played 10 matches for Lancashire as a wicket keeper and right handed batsman, taking 17 catches and completing 2 stumpings. He umpired 2 Ashes tests in 1921 at Lord's and the Oval.
Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
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Test cricket
Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket. Test matches are played between national representative teams with "Test status", as determined by the International Cricket Council , with four innings played between two teams of 11 players over a period of up to a maximum five days...
umpire. He was born in Manchester in 1876 and played 10 matches for Lancashire as a wicket keeper and right handed batsman, taking 17 catches and completing 2 stumpings. He umpired 2 Ashes tests in 1921 at Lord's and the Oval.