Philip Hope

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Philip Hope
Personal information
Full name
Philip Palmer Hope
Born(1889-02-10)10 February 1889
Hartlepool, County Durham, England
Died19 May 1962(1962-05-19) (aged 73)
Clifton, Bristol, England
BattingRight-handed
BowlingRight-arm fast-medium
RoleBatsman
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1914–25Somerset
First-class debut9 May 1914 Somerset v Surrey
Last First-class9 June 1925 Somerset v Essex
Career statistics
Competition First-class
Matches 41
Runs scored 1048
Batting average 15.18
100s/50s –/7
Top score 77
Balls bowled 177
Wickets 1
Bowling average 145.00
5 wickets in innings –
10 wickets in match –
Best bowling 1/17
Catches/stumpings 16/–
Source: CricketArchive, 6 September 2010

Philip Palmer Hope (10 February 1889 – 19 May 1962) played first-class cricket for Somerset from 1914 to 1925.[1] He was born at Hartlepool, County Durham, and died at Clifton, Bristol.

Hope was a right-handed middle or lower order batsman and an occasional right-arm fast-medium bowler. He was educated at Sherborne School and played Minor Counties cricket for Dorset up to 1913.

His first-class cricket for Somerset was restricted largely to three seasons, 1914, 1919 and 1921, though in each of these he was a fairly regular member of the side. In 1914, his one substantial innings was 65 against Derbyshire at Chesterfield.[2] Earlier, by making 18, he had contributed exactly half the runs made from the bat in the second innings against Hampshire at Bath.[3]

Hope returned to first-class cricket for a dozen games in 1919 and improved his personal best by scoring 68 in the match against Gloucestershire at Taunton.[4] This was the match in which Sydney Rippon, with whom Hope shared a 99-run first innings partnership that set Somerset on course to victory, played under an assumed name.[5][6] Hope did not play in 1920, but returned to Somerset for a further dozen games in 1921, when he again improved his highest score, this time scoring 77, more than double the second highest score, in the match against Essex at Bath.[7]

After 1921 Hope left regular first-class cricket, making just one further appearance for Somerset in the 1925 season.[8]

  1. ^ "Philip Hope". www.cricketarchive.com. Retrieved 4 September 2010.
  2. ^ "Scorecard: Derbyshire v Somerset". www.cricketarchive.com. 27 June 1914. Retrieved 4 September 2010.
  3. ^ "Scorecard: Somerset v Hampshire". www.cricketarchive.com. 11 June 1914. Retrieved 4 September 2010.
  4. ^ "Scorecard: Somerset v Gloucestershire". www.cricketarchive.com. 9 June 1919. Retrieved 5 September 2010.
  5. ^ David Foot (1986). Sunshine, Sixes and Cider: A History of Somerset Cricket (1986 ed.). David and Charles. pp. 99–100. ISBN 0-7153-8890-8.
  6. ^ "Somerset Matches". Wisden Cricketers' Almanack (1920 ed.). Wisden. p. 104.
  7. ^ "Scorecard: Somerset v Essex". www.cricketarchive.com. 1 June 1921. Retrieved 5 September 2010.
  8. ^ "Scorecard: Somerset v Essex". www.cricketarchive.com. 6 June 1925. Retrieved 5 September 2010.