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jim phillips

james phillips -lrb- 1 september 1860 , pleasant creek , now stawell , victoria -- 21 april 1930 at burnaby , british columbia , canada -rrb- was a victorian first-class cricketer and test match umpire .
he did not play his first first-class match until 1885/86 , and altogether played 124 matches for canterbury , middlesex and victoria between 1885/86 and 1898/99 as a right-hand batsman and right-arm medium bowler .
he scored 1827 runs at an average of 12.59 with a highest score of 110 not out , and took 355 wickets at an average of 20.00 with best figures of 8 for 69 .
seven times he took 10 or more wickets in a match .
he also took 50 catches .
as a player and umpire he travelled between australia and england , following the cricket seasons .
middlesex valued his contribution so highly that he was given a benefit match , australia v. middlesex , in 1899 .
he was also able to help australian players , such as albert trott find jobs and play cricket in england .
for a while he coached in christchurch , new zealand and played first-class cricket for canterbury .
phillips umpired a total of 29 test matches .
his first match was between australia and england in melbourne on 21 march 1885 to 25 march 1885 , comfortably won by england by an innings and 98 runs .
his colleague was george hodges , standing in his only test match .
he umpired 13 test matches in australia , including all 5 in the 1894/95 and the 1897/98 series against england .
he also umpired 11 matches in england against australian touring sides , including all 3 in 1896 , and 4 out of 5 in 1905 .
his last matches were the 5 played in south africa against england in 1905/06 .
thus he can claim to be the first genuinely `` international '' test umpire .
according to pollard ` dimboola jim ' phillips was `` a fearless umpire who was largely responsible for stamping out throwing around the turn of the century ... establishing an international reputation for acumen and honesty . ''
amongst the bowlers called for throwing by phillips were australian test players ernie jones and tom mckibbin .
jones was first no-balled in a match between south australia and the visiting english side in 1897/98 .
phillips again no-balled him once in the 2nd test of that series , jones thus becoming the first bowler to be called for throwing in a test match .
the selectors omitted jack saunders from the 1905 team to tour england because it was feared that phillips would no-ball him for throwing .
wisden blamed english umpires for the problem , claiming that `` australian bowlers never threw in england until we had shown them over and over again that -lsb- the law could be broken with impunity . ''
phillips ' actions , including the no-balling of the english amateur champion c. b. fry , led to a meeting of county captains in 1900 , which recommended that nine regular bowlers not be used in the following season .
in the first test match of 1897/98 phillips controversially gave charlie mcleod run out .
mcleod was bowled by a no-ball but , because of his deafness , did not hear the call .
he left the wicket , believing he was out , and a fieldsman pulled out a stump and appealed .
under present-day laws mcleod would be given ` not out ' as he had `` left his wicket under a misapprehension that he out '' .
-lrb- dean jones suffered a similar fate in the west indies -rrb- .
when smoke from bushfires made visibility difficult at melbourne in the 4th test of the 1897/98 series , the english captain claimed that play should cease because of bad light .
umpire phillips was unimpressed , saying that `` if that light was bad , then cricket had better be given up entirely at bramall lane , bradford , and old trafford . ''
an english player remarked that australia was the only place where the country was set alight just to win a cricket match .
on retirement , phillips became a mining engineer and is reputed to have made a fortune in north america .
