Philip Lee (mai wasan cricket)

Philip Keith Lee (15 ga Satumba 1904 - 9 ga Agusta 1980) ɗan wasan ƙwallon ƙafa ne na Australiya wanda ya buga wasanni biyu na gwaji daga 1931 zuwa 1933.

A farkon shekarun 1920, ya kasance babban Dan wasan kwallon kafa na Australiya a Kudancin Kudancin Australia kuma ya taka leda a matakin kasa da kasa na Kudancin Australiya.  Ya kasance memba na Kungiyar kwallon kafa ta Norwood ta 1923.  Da farko ya fi taka leda a matsayin rabin gaba, amma bayan ya rasa wasu wasanni saboda raunin kafa ya dawo a 1926 don taka leda a matsayinsa na rabin baya.

A matsayinsa na dan wasan crick, Lee ya kasance mai buga kwallo na hannun dama kuma mai buga kwalolo na hannun dama. Ya buga wasanni da yawa ga Kudancin Australia daga 1925 zuwa 1926, da farko yana bugawa a cikin tsari na tsakiya kuma yana yin kwallo akai-akai. Daga 1930, wasan bowling dinsa ya ci gaba kuma an kira shi zuwa gefen gwajin Australiya don wasan na biyu na jerin bangarorin daya tare da Afirka ta hutu a Sydney a 1931-32. Tare da Clarrie Grimmett da Bert Ironmonger a gefe, Lee yana da iyakantaccen bowling kuma ya ɗauki wicket ɗaya kawai.

Fitowar Bill O'Reilly a matsayin mai jefa kwallo na gwaji daga baya a cikin wannan jerin ya zama kamar zai iyakance damar Lee don ƙarin gwajin gwaji, amma a kakar wasa mai zuwa, 1932-33, an tuno shi don wasan na biyar a cikin jerin Bodyline da Ingila bayan Grimmett ya rasa tsari. A cikin wasannin farko na Ostiraliya, ya buga a No 8, ya buga 42 daga cikin 57 a cikin minti 35 tare da Bert Oldfield, kuma a wasannin farko da aka fara zuwa kwallo bayan O'Reilly da Ironmonger, shi ne mai cin nasara a Ostiraliya tare da wickets hudu don gudu 111. A wasan na biyu, ya kasance na karshe na 15 yayin da Ostiraliya ta fadi zuwa Hedley Verity, kuma ya kasa ɗaukar wicket yayin da Ingila ta ci nasara da wickets takwas.

Ko da yake yana wasa a wasanni biyu na gwaji, Lee yana da mummunan lokacin bowling a 1933-34, kuma tare da dawowar Grimmett ba a zaba shi ba don yawon shakatawa na Ingila a 1934. Ya sake buga wasa daya a Kudancin Australia sannan ya yi ritaya.

Ya halarci Kwalejin St Peter, Adelaide, inda ya jagoranci kungiyoyin wasan kurket, kwallon kafa, wasan tennis da na wasanni. Ya auri Mary Lucas a watan Yunin shekara ta 1935. 

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Rukuni:Mutuwan 1980
Rukuni:Haifaffun 1904