Hugh Raymond Phillips (8 April 1929 – 2018) was an English

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er. Phillips was a right-handed

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. He was born at

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in what was then British Malaya, now

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. Phillips made a single first-class appearance for

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against

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in 1951. Scotland won the toss and elected to bat in their first-innings, making 359 all out. In response, Warwickshire made 332 all out, with Phillips scoring 3 runs at number five, before he was dismissed by

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. This was his only first-class batting innings, with the match being declared a draw. He died in 2018 in New Zealand.

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