Phillips was born at
Canterbury in
Kent and educated at
The King's School, Canterbury before going up to
St Edmund Hall, Oxford in 1955. A tall fast bowler, he took 170 wickets as a schoolboy and played for at
Lord's for the Public Schools in 1952, his final year at school. He was also a
chorister at
Canterbury Cathedral whilst at school. He made his first-class debut for
Oxford University in 1955, winning a
Blue the same year. He played four matches for
Kent County Cricket Club the same season. Phillips played for the University side in the following two seasons, although he did not win another Blue, as well as appearing for Kent's Second XI. He took a total of 72 first-class wickets with his only first-class
five-wicket haul coming for Oxford against
MCC at Lord's. After leaving university, Phillips played club cricket for St Lawrence in Kent before moving to
Banbury in
Oxfordshire where he played for Banbury Cricket Club as well as captaining the town's
rugby union club. He worked for
Alcan, an aluminium company, and rose to become the company's personnel director. Phillips died at Banbury in 2017 aged 83. ==References==