Phillips has to be the best utility cricketer on the planet. Can bat at nearly every position, can play as both an accumulator or a hitter, can bowl tidy off spin, runs and fields like a madman and can also keep.
The RR was around eleven when he came in. His first over was the first one in the innings that didn’t end with a boundary in it. Since then he’s dismissed the openers who scored a fifty and a hundred and has also dismissed the next best batter on paper in this side.
When he finished his spell the RR was at seven and a half. This was an insane bowling performance by every metric from someone who was seen as nothing more than a part-timer.
