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Philippe’s fearlessness born of an empty wallet | cricket.com.au – cricket.com.au
As he eyes an international debut and a World Cup berth, the Sydney Sixers star reveals how a stint abroad put him on the path to becoming one of the BBL’s most…
The baby-faced boldness that has made Josh Philippe one of the Big Bash’s biggest success stories was not born in an elite academy or a state cricket system, but out of an empty wallet in far north-east England.
Philippe had still not turned 20 yet the Perth-born ‘keeper-batsman felt his career was stalling when he made the trip to the United Kingdom to play for Newcastle Cricket Club in 2017.
“I wasn’t part of any WA squad then and I almost felt like the dream of playing state cricket was slipping…
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