Phil Ridings

{{short description|Australian cricketer}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2018}}

{{Use Australian English|date=September 2012}}

{{Infobox cricketer

| name = Phil Ridings

| honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=AUS|AO|size=100}}

| image = Phil Ridings 1950.jpg

| caption = Ridings in New Zealand in 1950

| country =

| fullname = Philip Lovett Ridings

| nickname =

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1917|10|2|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Malvern, South Australia, Australia

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1998|9|13|1917|10|2|df=yes}}

| death_place = Adelaide, South Australia

| batting = Right-handed

| bowling = Right-arm medium-fast

| family = Ken Ridings (brother)

| club1 = South Australia

| year1 = 1937–38 to 1956–57

| columns = 1

| column1 = First-class

| matches1 = 102

| runs1 = 5653

| bat avg1 = 36.23

| 100s/50s1 = 9/29

| top score1 = 186 not out

| deliveries1 = 6070

| wickets1 = 61

| bowl avg1 = 46.95

| fivefor1 = 0

| tenfor1 = 0

| best bowling1 = 4/66

| catches/stumpings1 = 55/0

| date = 31 December 2016

| source = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/7/7408/7408.html CricketArchive

}}

Philip Lovett Ridings {{post-nominals|country=AUS|AO}} (2 October 1917 – 13 September 1998) was an Australian cricketer.[http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/7355.html Phil Ridings]. Cricinfo He attended Unley High School from 1930 to 1934.

Nicknamed "Pancho",Benaud, R. (2010) Over but not out, Hachette, London. p. 127. {{ISBN|1444711210}}. Ridings played first-class cricket for South Australia from 1937 to 1957, scoring nine hundreds. Primarily a batsman, he also took 61 first-class wickets with his fast-medium pace bowling. He was captain of the South Australia team that officially complained to the New South Wales Cricket Association over the Sid Barnes twelfth man incident.

After his playing days, Ridings was a cricket administrator and Chairman of the Australian Cricket Board from 1980 to 1983.{{cite web

| url = http://www.cricket.com.au/default.aspx?s=cahistory

| title = Cricket Australia History

| publisher = Cricket Australia

| accessdate = 7 December 2007

}}

Ridings was appointed Officer of the Order of Australia in 1982.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Phillip Lovett Ridings|url=https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/886481|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-12-07|website=It's An Honour}}