Philip Le Gros


Philip Walter Le Gros was an English cricketer. Le Gros was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm fast. He was born at Reigate, Surrey.
Gros made his debut for Buckinghamshire in the 1912 Minor [Counties Championship] against Berkshire. He continued to play Minor counties cricket for Buckinghamshire following the First World War, representing the county from 1920 to 1935. He played a total of 80 Minor Counties Championship matches for Buckinghamshire. His first-class debut came for the Gentlemen of England against a Combined Services cricket team in 1920. He played two first-class matches for the Marylebone Cricket Club, one in 1921 against Oxford University, and one in 1922 against Cambridge University. He played his final first-class match for a combined Minor Counties cricket team against HDG Leveson-Gower's XI. It was in this match he scored his only half century, making 51 runs. He scored a total of 94 runs at an average of 15.66 in his 4 first-class matches.
He died at Richmond, Surrey, on 27 February 1980. His uncle, William Trask, was a first-class cricketer for Somerset.