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Raymond Phillips (Jamaican cricketer)

Jamaican cricketer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 28, 2024
Entity authorityQ101423270 ↗
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Raymond Phillips (1900 – 1970) was a Jamaican cricketer. He played in seven first-class matches for the Jamaican cricket team from 1925 to 1928, and was part of the West Indian team that toured England in 1923.

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“Raymond Phillips (Jamaican cricketer)” enters the record as jamaican cricketer. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Raymond, Phillips and Jamaican can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1900, 1970, 1925, 1928—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1900-01-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Raymond, Phillips and Jamaican.
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This entry incorporates text from “Raymond Phillips (Jamaican cricketer)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.