Jack Phillipps

Jack Phillipps in 1933

John Hugh "Jack" Phillipps CBE (born Auckland, 1 January 1898, died Wellington, New Zealand, 8 June 1977) was a New Zealand cricket administrator. He managed the New Zealand cricket team's tours of England in 1949 and 1958, and the MCC's tour of New Zealand in 1960-61.[1]

He served as a rifleman with the New Zealand forces in the First World War,[2] and in the Transport Corps in the Second World War as a lieutenant colonel, and was awarded the OBE in the 1946 New Year Honours.[3]

Of his management of the 1949 team, Wisden commented: "No more efficient or courteous manager of a touring side can be imagined than Mr J.H. Phillipps."[4] He also played in the two-day match against Durham but did not bat or bowl.[5]

A benefit match for him was played in Wellington in December 1956, between Wellington and "J.H. Phillipps' XI", a team of players from the 1949 touring team. It was regarded as a first-class match at the time but was later downgraded by the New Zealand authorities,[6] perhaps because many of the Phillipps XI had by that time retired from first-class cricket.[7]

He was promoted to CBE in the 1960 New Year Honours.[8] On 5 July 1960 he was one of 63 administrators and former players from overseas countries to be invited to become honorary life members of the MCC.[9]

After the ill-will caused during the MCC's tour of New Zealand in 1958-59, an MCC tour of New Zealand by a young side of Test aspirants was organised for the 1960-61 season, captained by the diplomatic Dennis Silk and managed by Phillipps.[10]

His brief Wisden obituary described him as "a man universally loved and respected".[11]

References

  1. ↑ Wisden 1978, p. 1080.
  2. ↑ Auckland Museum website
  3. ↑ Julia Millen, Salute to Service: A History of the Royal New Zealand Corps of Transport and Its Predecessors, Victoria University Press, Wellington, 1997, p. 423.
  4. ↑ Reg Hayter, "New Zealanders in England, 1949", Wisden 1950, p. 211.
  5. ↑ Durham v New Zealanders 1949
  6. ↑ Wellington v J.H. Phillipps' XI 1956-57
  7. ↑ "Martin Donnelly – Summer sun on a winter's day" by Trevor Chesterfield on Cricinfo. Retrieved 10 July 2013.
  8. ↑ Supplement to the London Gazette, 1 January 1960, p. 42 Retrieved 10 July 2013.
  9. ↑ "M.C.C. Honour Overseas Cricketers", Wisden 1961, p. 553.
  10. ↑ D.J. Cameron, "Obituary: Colin Cowdrey", New Zealand Herald, 9 December 2000. Retrieved 12 July 2013.
  11. ↑ Wisden 1978, p. 1080.
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