{{Short description|English-Fijian cricketer}} {{about|the Fijian cricketer|the English cricketer|Philip Snow (cricketer, born 1907)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox cricketer | name = Philip Snow | image = | country = Fiji | fullname = Philip Albert Snow | nickname = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1915|8|7|df=yes}} | birth_place = Leicester, Leicestershire, England | death_date = {{Death date and age|2012|6|4|1915|8|7|df=yes}} | death_place = England, United Kingdom | heightft = | heightinch = | heightm = | batting = | bowling = | role = | international = true | club1 = | year1 = | columns = 1 | column1 = First-class | matches1 = 5 | runs1 = 121 | bat avg1 = 17.28 | 100s/50s1 = –/– | top score1 = 38 | deliveries1 = 143 | wickets1 = 4 | bowl avg1 = 25.25 | fivefor1 = – | tenfor1 = – | best bowling1 = 2/60 | catches/stumpings1 = 1/– | date = 13 March | year = 2010 | source = http://www.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/24068.html Cricinfo }}
'''Philip Albert Snow''' OBE (7 August 1915 – 4 June 2012) was an English cricketer.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fijitimes.com/story.aspx?id=203531 |title=Fiji legend Philip Snow passes on |publisher=The Fiji Times |date= |accessdate=2012-06-13 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130122225340/http://www.fijitimes.com/story.aspx?id=203531 |archive-date=2013-01-22 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
In 1936 Snow made his debut for the Leicestershire Second XI against the Nottinghamshire Second XI. From 1936 to 1937 Snow played four matches for the Leicestershire Second XI.
Snow made his first-class debut for Fiji in 1948 against Auckland during Fiji's tour of New Zealand. Snow made 5 first-class appearances on tour, with his final first-class match for Fiji coming against Auckland.
In his 5 first-class matches for Fiji he scored 121 runs at a batting average of 17.28, with a high score of 38. With the ball he took 4 wickets at a bowling average of 25.25, with best figures of 2/60.
Philip Snow was the younger brother of the scientist and author C. P. Snow – of whom he wrote the biography ''Stranger and brother: a portrait of C. P. Snow'' (1982) – and the historian Eric Snow. He was educated at Alderman Newton's School, Leicester and Christ's College, Cambridge, and was by profession a colonial administrator in Fiji.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/9495310/Philip-Snow.html|title = Philip Snow}}</ref><ref>{{Who's Who | title=SNOW, Philip Albert | id = U35579 | type = was | volume = 2018 | edition = online}}</ref>
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==External links== *[http://www.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/24068.html Philip Snow] at Cricinfo *[http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Players/24/24498/24498.html Philip Snow] at CricketArchive
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