Wayne B. Phillips

For the other Test cricketer named Wayne Phillips, see Wayne N. Phillips

Wayne Phillips

Personal information
Full name	Wayne Bentley Phillips
Born	1 March 1958 (1958-03-01) Adelaide, Australia
Nickname	Flipper
Batting style	Left-handed
Role	Batsman, Wicket keeper, coach,
International information
National side	Australia
Test debut (cap 320)	11 November 1983 v Pakistan
Last Test	13 March 1986 v New Zealand
ODI debut (cap 69)	22 October 1982 v Pakistan
Last ODI	29 March 1986 v New Zealand
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1979–1991	South Australia
Career statistics
Competition	Test	ODI	FC	LA
Matches	27	48	114	83
Runs scored	1485	852	6907	1804
Batting average	32.28	24.34	37.74	28.18
100s/50s	2/7	0/6	13/33	1/13
Top score	159	75*	260	135
Balls bowled	-	-	29	-
Wickets	-	-	0	-
Bowling average	-	-	-	-
5 wickets in innings	-	-	0	-
10 wickets in match	-	-	0	n/a
Best bowling	-	-	-	-
Catches/stumpings	52/–	42/7	154/7	70/8
Source: [1], 24 August 2011

Wayne Bentley Phillips (born 1 March 1958) is a former Australian cricketer, who played in 27 Tests and 48 ODIs from 1982 to 1986.

Career

Phillips played for South Australia between 1978 and 1991 and Australia as a batsman and wicket-keeper. He broke through into the Australian team in 1982 as a batsman, being selected on the tour of Pakistan and making his one day international debut in a match that was called off due to a riot.

Test Debut

Phillips was picked as opener for the first test against Pakistan during the 1983-84 summer and scored 159 in the first innings. He played for the rest of the series, ending with 362 runs at an average of 60.33, and was selected for the 1984 tour of the West Indies.

Wicketkeeper

Rod Marsh retired as wicketkeeper at the end of the 1983-84 season and it was expected his replacement would be Roger Woolley, who kept wicket for the first two tour games. However, the selectors were unhappy with Woolley's form and felt having Phillips as keeper would strengthen the batting, so he was picked in that role, batting at seven. He was moved around the order for the rest of the series, the highlight being his 120 which he scored in the third test.

Phillips stayed on as first choice wicketkeeper throughout the 1984-85 summer, despite an injury which saw him miss several games, and played in the 1985 Ashes. However by 1985–86, both his batting and wicket-keeping form suffered and he ended up being replaced by specialist keeper Tim Zoehrer.

Phillips played some further tests as a specialist batsman on the 1986 tour of New Zealand, but was not selected in the squad to tour India later that year and never regained his position in the Australian side. His promotion to wicketkeeper is generally held to have done considerable damage to his talents as a batsman.

Post Test Career

Philips went on to score runs for South Australia until the early 1990s. In March 1987, he batted in a South Australian record 4th-wicket partnership of 462 runs with David Hookes against Tasmania. Phillips scored 213 not out.

Coaching

He coached the Southern Redbacks for four seasons, until resigning on 16 March 2007, one season before his contract was set to expire. Under his tenure, the Redbacks' winning percentage hit 25%^{[citation needed]} (10 wins, 22 losses and eight draws) and in his last season, they finished last in both the Pura Cup (winning just one match) and Ford Ranger Cup competitions.

Philiips' father Brian Phillips was a former Australian rules footballer and chairman of selectors with Sturt Football Club in the South Australian National Football League.

Post Cricket Career

In 2007 Phillips accepted a position as chief fundraiser for the South Australian branch of the Liberal Party.

Wayne Phillips' Test career batting performance.

See also

• List of Australian wicket-keepers

External links

• Cricinfo article on Wayne B. Phillips
• Redbacks to clean nest