Philip Hope

{{short description|English cricketer}}

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{{Infobox cricketer

| name = Philip Hope

| image =

| country = England

| fullname = Philip Palmer Hope

| height =

| nickname =

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1889|2|10|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Hartlepool, County Durham, England

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1962|5|19|1889|2|10|df=yes}}

| death_place = Clifton, Bristol, England

| batting = Right-handed

| bowling = Right-arm fast-medium

| role = Batsman

| club1 = Somerset

| year1 = 1914–25

| type1 = First-class

| debutdate1 = 9 May

| debutyear1 = 1914

| debutfor1 = Somerset

| debutagainst1 = Surrey

| lastdate1 = 9 June

| lastyear1 = 1925

| lastfor1 = Somerset

| lastagainst1 = Essex

| columns = 1

| column1 = First-class

| matches1 = 41

| runs1 = 1048

| bat avg1 = 15.18

| 100s/50s1 = –/7

| top score1 = 77

| deliveries1 = 177

| wickets1 = 1

| bowl avg1 = 145.00

| fivefor1 = –

| tenfor1 = –

| best bowling1 = 1/17

| catches/stumpings1 = 16/–

| date = 6 September

| year = 2010

| source = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/3/3635/3635.html CricketArchive

}}

Philip Palmer Hope (10 February 1889 – 19 May 1962) played first-class cricket for Somerset from 1914 to 1925.{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/3/3635/3635.html| title = Philip Hope| publisher = CricketArchive | accessdate = 2010-09-04}} 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.{{cite web | url = http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Scorecards/9/9332.html| title = Scorecard: Derbyshire v Somerset | date = 1914-06-27 | publisher = CricketArchive | accessdate = 2010-09-04}} Earlier, by making 18, he had contributed exactly half the runs made from the bat in the second innings against Hampshire at Bath.{{cite web | url = http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Scorecards/9/9304.html| title = Scorecard: Somerset v Hampshire | date = 1914-06-11 | publisher = CricketArchive | accessdate = 2010-09-04}}

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.{{cite web | url = http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Scorecards/9/9560.html| title = Scorecard: Somerset v Gloucestershire | date = 1919-06-09 | publisher = CricketArchive | accessdate = 2010-09-05}} 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.{{Cite book | title = Sunshine, Sixes and Cider: A History of Somerset Cricket | author = David Foot | year = 1986 | edition = 1986 | publisher = David and Charles | isbn = 0-7153-8890-8 | pages = 99–100 }}{{Cite book | title = Wisden Cricketers' Almanack | edition = 1920 | publisher = Wisden | chapter = Somerset Matches| page = 104 }} 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.{{cite web | url = http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Scorecards/10/10100.html| title = Scorecard: Somerset v Essex | date = 1921-06-01 | publisher = CricketArchive | accessdate = 2010-09-05}}

After 1921 Hope left regular first-class cricket, making just one further appearance for Somerset in the 1925 season.{{cite web | url = http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Scorecards/11/11514.html| title = Scorecard: Somerset v Essex | date = 1925-06-06 | publisher = CricketArchive | accessdate = 2010-09-05}}