Philip Hope

For the UK politician and government minister, see Phil Hope.

Philip Hope

Personal information
Full name	Philip Palmer Hope
Born	(1889-02-10)10 February 1889 Hartlepool, County Durham, England
Died	19 May 1962(1962-05-19) (aged 73) Clifton, Bristol, England
Batting	Right-handed
Bowling	Right-arm fast-medium
Role	Batsman
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1914–25	Somerset
First-class debut	9 May 1914 Somerset v Surrey
Last First-class	9 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]

References

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.