![]() Ĭarlson was not selected for the 1979 Cricket World Cup, and was never able to get back into the Australian team after the World Series Cricket players were available the following summer. He dismissed him once in Tests (50% of wickets) and he got him out twice in ODI (100%). Graham Gooch was his most popular victim. Ĭarlson took two Test wickets and two ODI wickets. Afterwards, former Australian selector John Benaud criticised the Test selection of Carlson, supposedly as an allrounder but whose "slow, gentle mediums" and batting ability at number six was not what Australian captain Graham Yallop needed. He performed poorly in these two matches, the only tests he played. These strong performances saw Carlson selected to play in the Australian side for the fifth and sixth tests, replacing Geoff Dymock. He followed this with 88 against South Australia. Ĭarlson then scored a century and took ten wickets in a game against New South Wales. He was dropped from the squad for the third test, although he was kept on to play a one-day international. ![]() He was made 12th man for that and the second test. Some strong performances at the beginning of the 1978–79 season saw Carlson picked in Australia's squad for the first test. This feat was achieved against New South Wales in 1978–79, the season where Carlson hit his peak, scoring 545 runs and taking 31 wickets. ![]() As of 2012, he was the only Queenslander to score a century and take ten wickets in a match. He also took a five wicket haul in a one-day game. įor Queensland, Carlson took five wickets in a first class game five times, with one ten wicket haul. He later made 107 against Western Australia. ĭuring the 1977–78 season, Carlson scored 103 against South Australia. Ĭarlson played the 1973 season in the Lancashire League for Bacup. He scored his first century in 1971–72 – the same season saw him pick up his first five wicket haul. He scored 85 in his second game and began bowling as a back up bowler. Career Domestic Ĭarlson made his first class debut for Queensland when he was 18, as a batsman. He started playing cricket for Northern Suburbs, where he caught the interest of State selectors when he was in first grade. ![]() He was called up by Australia when most of their regular first-choice players were playing in World Series Cricket.Ĭarlson was born in the Nundah suburb of Brisbane on 8 August 1951. He played his two Test matches for Australia v England in the 1978–79 Ashes series and the four One Day Internationals against the same opponents. He was an all-rounder who played for Queensland between 1969––81. Phillip Henry Carlson (8 August 1951 – 29 July 2022) was an Australian cricketer who played in two Test matches and four One Day Internationals (ODIs) in 1979. ![]()
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