Meg Ellen Phillips (born 2 February 1996) is an Australian

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er who played as an

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for

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and

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. She has also played county cricket for

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, and semi-professional basketball for

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. From Evandale in northern Tasmania, Phillips was educated at

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in Launceston. She made her debut for Tasmanian Roar as a 16 year old against the

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in 2011. At that time, she was one of the youngest cricketers playing in an Australian senior cricket team. In January 2012, Phillips captained the Tasmanian team in the Cricket Australia Under-18 Female Championships at

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in Victoria. Also in 2012, she was named young female cricketer of the year. In March 2013, she debuted for Scotch Oakburn College's senior firsts cricket team, and was said to be the first female ever to have played in the SATIS (Sports Association of Tasmanian Independent Schools) cricket competition. She again captained the Tasmanian female under-18 team in 2013–14. During the winter of 2014, Phillips spent two weeks at the National Training Centre in Brisbane. The ensuing 2014–15 season was Phillips' best for the Roar to date, and included a score of 68 off 109 balls, batting at the top of the order against the Meteors. In February 2015, Phillips was awarded an

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Scholarship, funded by the

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, to travel overseas for the first time and play county cricket for Lancashire. Soon after arriving in the UK, she became the first female to play in the First Division of the North Manchester Cricket League when she debuted for Tottington St John's in a local derby match against East Lancs Paper Mill. In November 2015, after returning to Australia for the 2015–16 season, she took 4-16 and scored 20 runs in a

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match against the

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. Phillips was signed by the Hurricanes for its inaugural WBBL01 season (2015–16). She remained in the Hurricanes squad for the WBBL02 season (2016–17). In November 2018, she was named in the

' squad for the

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. On 11 June 2021, it was confirmed that Phillips had not received a Tasmania contract for the 2021–22 WNCL season.

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