Philip_Harrison_(cricketer)

Philip Harrison (cricketer)

Philip Harrison (cricketer)

English cricketer


William Philip Harrison (13 November 1885 – 7 September 1964) was an English amateur first-class cricketer who played for Kent County Cricket Club, Cambridge University and Middlesex County Cricket Club between 1904 and 1911.

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Biography

He was born in Finchley (Middlesex) in 1885 and educated at Rugby School.[1] He played cricket in the First XI at Rugby and made his first-class cricket debut for Kent in June 1904 against Nottinghamshire in the 1904 County Championship at Trent Bridge.[2][3]

Harrison played seven times for Kent in 1904 and 1905 and four times for Cambridge University in 1905 before making his Middlesex debut in the 1906 season.[1][2] He toured New Zealand in 1906/07 with an amateur MCC team,[1][4] playing in nine of the 11 first-class matches and a number of minor matches on the tour. He played in both matches against the New Zealand side, although these are not classed as Test matches.[5] He scored his maiden first-class century in the second match against Otago, 105 in 90 minutes.[6]

After gaining his cricket Blue in 1907, he played most frequently for Middlesex in 1908 and made 29 first-class appearances for the county in a career that ended in 1911. His highest score, 156 runs, came in his final first-class innings.[1]

Harrison died at Harrogate in Yorkshire in 1964 aged 78.[1]


References

  1. William Harrison, CricInfo. Retrieved 2017-10-24.
  2. Philip Harrison, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2017-10-24. (subscription required)
  3. Carlaw D (2020) Kent County Cricketers A to Z. Part One: 1806–1914 (revised edition), pp. 225–226. (Available online at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 2020-12-21.)
  4. England cricket team for New Zealand, Feilding Star, vol. 1, no.125, 1906-11-24. Retrieved 2017-10-24.
  5. Marylebone Cricket Club in New Zealand 1906–07, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2017-10-24.
  6. Notes by Long Slip Otago Witness, vol. 2761, 1907-02-13, p.60. Retrieved 2017-11-20.

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