12 Facts About Phil Newport

Philip John Newport was born on 11 October 1962 and is a former English first-class cricketer, who played primarily as a seam and swing bowler.

Phil Newport played in three Test matches for England between 1988 and 1991.

Phil Newport returned to the Second XI for a while, but was then called up for the local derby with Warwickshire at Edgbaston.

Slowly Phil Newport forced himself into contention for a regular spot in the county side, and in 1986 he made the breakthrough, winning his county cap and taking five wickets in an innings on five occasions, on his way to a total haul of 85 victims.

Phil Newport scored his maiden first-class fifty in this season, the first of 22 he was to make in his career.

Phil Newport had a mediocre 1987 season in England, his first-class batting average of over 41 that year being artificially inflated by twelve not-outs in twenty five innings.

Phil Newport took nine wickets against a powerful Essex team containing Graham Gooch and Allan Border, picking up Border's wicket in both innings.

Phil Newport had no chance to make amends, being allowed only five overs in Australia's second innings, and was dropped for the Second Test of England's painful Ashes summer.

Phil Newport made 40 not out in a lost cause, coming to the crease with England 118 for 6, but did not impress with the ball, taking only one wicket and bowling six no-balls in his fourteen overs.

Phil Newport never played for England again, after a career lasting just three Tests and without a One Day International to his name.

In 1991, Phil Newport helped Worcestershire to the Benson and Hedges Cup, and the Refuge Assurance Cup, defeating Lancashire in both finals.

Phil Newport retired after the 1999 season, bowing out rather quietly with a National League game in which he did not bat or take a wicket, with only a single catch.