Wilfred Rhodes took 4.187 wickets in a brilliant career. For which county did he take the most?
"and circumstances of his death are not known. Overall, he scored 70 runs at an average of 17.5. He took one wicket for seventeen runs for Yorkshire. Wilfred Blake Wilfred Blake (29 November 1854 – unknown) was an English first-class cricketer, who had the distinction of playing for both Yorkshire County Cricket Club and Lancashire County Cricket Club in his brief three match career. Blake was born in Embsay, Skipton, Yorkshire, and was a right-handed batsman and right arm, roundarm, medium pace bowler. He made his debut for Lancashire in the Roses Match at Fartown, Huddersfield in 1877. Batting at"
"Yorkshire and Lancashire were the dominant teams in English cricket. The writings of Neville Cardus at this time were instrumental in emphasising the sense of rivalry between the two teams. Wilfred Rhodes retired in 1930, taking 73 wickets and scoring 478 runs in his final season at the age of 53. J. M. Kilburn wrote in the Yorkshire Post: ""He had bowled at W.G. Grace, and he bowled at Don Bradman. At 20, at 30, at 40 and at 50 he had shown himself master of his world, and his kingdom was never usurped."" Rhodes was replaced by Hedley Verity,"
"although he had continued to bowl successfully for Derbyshire across the 1960s. In the 1961 season he topped Derbyshire's bowling with 101 and took six five wicket innings. Against Oxford University he achieved a hat-trick that year. He took 68 wickets in the 1962 season and took five five wicket innings. His best season of 1965, saw him take 119 wickets at the low average of 11.04 runs per wicket, and he was top of the English national bowling averages for that season. Rhodes retired to League cricket in 1969. He then played some one-day matches for Nottinghamshire between 1970"
"Herbert Rhodes Herbert Edward Rhodes (11 January 1852 – 10 September 1889) was an English amateur first-class cricketer, who played ten first-class matches for Yorkshire County Cricket Club from 1878 to 1883, and twenty five matches overall for teams including the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) (1878–1883), England XI (1879), A.W. Ridley's XI (1879), Gentlemen of England (1881–1882) and Orleans Club (1883). He played for Warwickshire in 1890 in non first-class cricket. Born at Hennerton House at Wargrave in Berkshire, England, Rhodes was a right-handed batsman and wicket-keeper, who took fourteen catches and completed two stumpings in all first-class cricket. He"
"Wilfred Rhodes decided to drop down the order for the 2nd innings and Sutcliffe went in first with Percy Holmes. After some indifferent scores, he completed his maiden first-class century on 23 and 24 July against Northamptonshire at Northampton when he and Holmes put on 279 for the first wicket, Sutcliffe scoring 145 and Holmes 133. Further success resulted in Holmes and Sutcliffe being awarded their county caps in August 1919. Sutcliffe created a debut season record by scoring 1,839 runs at an average of 44.85 with 5 centuries and a highest score of 174 against Kent at Crabble Athletic"
"season, against Hampshire, Kent and Surrey. In his four first-class matches, he scored 105 runs at an average of 17.50, with a high score of 55. This score was his only first-class fifty and came against on debut against Gloucestershire. He died at Rustington, Sussex on 26 May 1936. Thomas Rhodes (cricketer) Thomas Basil Rhodes (13 August 1874 – 26 May 1936) was an English cricketer. Rhodes was a right-handed batsman who occasionally fielded as a wicket-keeper. He was born at Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, and was educated at Malvern College. Rhodes made his debut in county cricket for Worcestershire in the"
"1985 staying with that county for the remaining two decades of his playing career. Towards the end of the 2004 season, Rhodes briefly became county captain following Ben Smith's resignation during the home game with Northamptonshire County Cricket Club. He was selected for the England tour to India in 1988/89, but when this was cancelled for political reasons he lost his chance, and it was to be 1994 before he made his Test cricket debut. His selection was primarily down to the new chairman of selectors, Ray Illingworth, who announced at his appointment that he wanted balanced sides i.e. an"
"William Rhodes (cricketer, born 1936) William Ernest Rhodes (5 August 1936 – 16 August 2005), generally known as ""Billy Rhodes"", was an English cricketer. He was a middle-order right-handed batsman and an occasional wicketkeeper who played first-class cricket for Nottinghamshire between 1961 and 1964. He was born in Bradford, Yorkshire and died at Macclesfield, Cheshire. He was the father of the England Test wicketkeeper Steve Rhodes and grandfather of George Rhodes. As a 17-year-old, Rhodes played for Yorkshire's junior team in 1954. And in 1959 he played for both Worcestershire's second eleven and a non-first-class Nottinghamshire side. From 1960 he"
"made batting difficult, particularly ones affected by rain, he could be almost impossible to bat against. Verity was born in Leeds and, from an early age, wished to play cricket for Yorkshire. After establishing a good reputation in local cricket, he signed a contract as a professional cricketer playing in the Lancashire League. His first season was not a success but, after moving clubs, he began to make a name for himself. Initially a medium-paced bowler, he switched to bowling spin in an attempt to secure a place in the Yorkshire team. When Wilfred Rhodes, the incumbent Yorkshire left-arm spinner,"
"took two 5 wicket innings including 7 for 114 against Gloucestershire. In the 1950 season he took six 5 wicket innings including 7 for 68 against Oxford University and in the 1951 season had four 5 wicket innings including 7 for 56 against Lancashire. He toured India with MCC in 1951/52 and in the 1952 season took three five-wicket innings. He was down to three matches in 1953 and 1954 before he left the first-class game. Rhodes was a right-hand batsman and played 422 innings in 275 first-class matches to score 7363 runs with an average of 18.97. He scored"
"frequently, an opinion shared by Wilfred Rhodes, Yorkshire's main slow left-arm spinner. Conscious of his increasing age, the 42-year-old Rhodes wanted support with the bowling workload; he considered Kilner the best option and encouraged him to improve his left-arm spin. Consequently, during the winter, Kilner practised bowling in the yard of the Wombwell hotel where his father was landlord. Around the same time he celebrated the birth of his second son, named Major after Major Booth. Kilner's bowling had greater success in 1921, helping Yorkshire to rise to third in the Championship. Used more regularly, he took 61 wickets (average"
"Thomas Rhodes (cricketer) Thomas Basil Rhodes (13 August 1874 – 26 May 1936) was an English cricketer. Rhodes was a right-handed batsman who occasionally fielded as a wicket-keeper. He was born at Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, and was educated at Malvern College. Rhodes made his debut in county cricket for Worcestershire in the 1895 Minor Counties Championship against Oxfordshire. He played Minor counties cricket for Worcestershire in 1895 and 1896, making a total of six appearances. Rhodes later made his first-class debut for Warwickshire against Gloucestershire in the 1899 County Championship. He made three further first-class appearances for the county in that"
"2015. In these games he scored 39,969 runs, the 17th highest career total of any batsman. He took 4,204 wickets, as of 2015 still the highest total in first-class cricket. In his 58 Tests Rhodes scored 2,325 runs (average 30.19) and took 127 wickets (average 26.96). He was the first player in the world to accumulate 2,000 runs and 100 wickets in Tests. Rhodes coached at Harrow School until 1936. Cricket was very important to the school, and they were following the lead of Eton College who had appointed George Hirst as their coach. However, Rhodes's personality and generally critical"
"to his ""Wisden"" obituary, Rhodes was one of the first men to adopt this batting stance. Rhodes faced a further development following the retirements of Hirst and Denton from Yorkshire; he became the county's senior professional. This position offered no official powers or responsibilities but was nevertheless significant as senior professionals influenced tactics, strategy and morale. Rhodes held this post until his retirement. In all first-class cricket in 1921, Rhodes scored 1,474 runs at an average of 39.83. This included his highest first-class score of 267 not out against Leicestershire, struck on the day England began the second Test, having"
"a fatal accident, when he fell from a hotel balcony (not from his horse, as is widely reported) and died in Dover, Kent aged 37. Herbert Rhodes Herbert Edward Rhodes (11 January 1852 – 10 September 1889) was an English amateur first-class cricketer, who played ten first-class matches for Yorkshire County Cricket Club from 1878 to 1883, and twenty five matches overall for teams including the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) (1878–1883), England XI (1879), A.W. Ridley's XI (1879), Gentlemen of England (1881–1882) and Orleans Club (1883). He played for Warwickshire in 1890 in non first-class cricket. Born at Hennerton House"
"Roses Match against Lancashire, Sutcliffe's first appearance in the fixture. Yorkshire were outplayed and lost by 140 runs but Sutcliffe earned a lot of plaudits with a defiant 2nd innings score of 53 in an all-out total of 153. Sutcliffe continued to make progress, notably with a new highest score of 71 against Derbyshire, but he was still batting in the middle order. Veteran Wilfred Rhodes was still opening the innings for Yorkshire alongside Percy Holmes, who had played a few pre-war matches. Finally, in the match against Nottinghamshire at Bramall Lane on 27 and 28 June, Rhodes decided to"
"and Rhodes played only one first-team match. There were a few more games in 1964, but he was not successful, failing to pass 50 in any innings, and at the end of the season his contract was not renewed. William Rhodes (cricketer, born 1936) William Ernest Rhodes (5 August 1936 – 16 August 2005), generally known as ""Billy Rhodes"", was an English cricketer. He was a middle-order right-handed batsman and an occasional wicketkeeper who played first-class cricket for Nottinghamshire between 1961 and 1964. He was born in Bradford, Yorkshire and died at Macclesfield, Cheshire. He was the father of the"
"played for Nottinghamshire's second team, but as a wicketkeeper his passage into the first team was barred by Geoff Millman who became a Test player soon after. In 1961, he played in seven first-class matches for Nottinghamshire purely as a batsman, being tried as an opener alongside the established Norman Hill in five of them; the experiment was not a success, and Rhodes' highest score in 13 innings was just 38, and his 169 runs for the season came at an average of only 15.36. In 1962, Millman was England's incumbent Test wicketkeeper at the start of the season, and"
"35 Test wickets at a bowling average of 20.05, with best figures of 8/70 in an innings and 12/127 for a match, both against England at Johannesburg in 1905–06. Four years later against England at Cape Town, he dismissed two batsmen – Wilfred Rhodes and David Denton – in the very first over of a Test match, a feat that was not repeated until nearly ninety years later. He played 124 first-class cricket matches for Border, Western Province and Transvaal, scoring 4,821 runs at an average of 25.91 and taking 120 wickets at an average of 25.14. He died at"
"a decision he regretted all his life, as he was never selected for Yorkshire again. He did, however, represent Yorkshire in a number of other games, including a match against a York sixteen in which he and Wilfred Rhodes opened the batting, and also games against Dinnington and District and York and District in 1920, scoring 24 and 7 respectively. In 1919, he had appeared for the 'East Riding' against the Yorkshire Second XI, scoring seven runs batting at number 3. He had started his club cricket career with Londesborough Park in 1909, and in 1911 joined Beverley Town Cricket"
"season he played a full first-class season taking 67 wickets and two five wicket innings. He began opening the county bowling with Les Jackson in the 1959 season after the retirement of Cliff Gladwin. In that season, he played two Tests against India, taking nine wickets. He took 60 wickets for Derbyshire but with one five wicket over. Although facing strong competition from bowlers such as Brian Statham and Fred Trueman, Rhodes might have expected to play many more Tests. But doubts about the legality of his bowling action emerged, and in the 1960 season, playing for Derbyshire against the"
"previously, Rhodes bowled a very accurate length and used his great experience effectively. The success of Percy Holmes and Herbert Sutcliffe as opening batsmen meant that, although Rhodes began the season opening the batting, he was able to move down the order and bat at number four. He scored 1,237 runs, and by taking 164 wickets at an average of 14.42, finished top of the national first-class bowling averages. Around this time, Rhodes was approached by Haslingden Cricket Club from the Lancashire League, to play cricket for them as a professional. Rhodes, primarily through unhappiness with the 1919 playing conditions,"
"One of two half centuries he made, this score came against the touring West Indians in 1923. With the ball, he took 15 wickets at a bowling average of 31.66, with best figures of 2/24. He also played cricket for Haslingden in the Lancashire League, who played for from 1919 to 1935. He died at Blackpool, Lancashire, on 10 March 1970. Albert Rhodes (Lancashire cricketer) Albert Rhodes (9 April 1889 – 10 March 1970) was an English cricketer. Rhodes was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm slow-medium. He was born in Saddleworth in the former West Riding of Yorkshire. Rhodes"
"and 1973, and he returned to Derbyshire in 1975, for some one day matches, and a final first-class game against Oxford University. Rhodes finished with nine Test wickets and 1073 first-class wickets at an average of 19.50 and with a best performance of 7 for 38. He was a right handed batsman and played 399 innings in 322 first-class matches with an average of 9.48 and a top score of 48. He scored no runs in two Test cricket matches. After the conclusion of his playing career, Rhodes took up coaching. He served as part-time coach of the German national"
"Wilfred Sanders Wilfred Sanders (4 April 1910 – 22 May 1965) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket between 1928 and 1934 for Warwickshire. He was born in Chilvers Coton, Warwickshire, and died in Nuneaton, also in Warwickshire. Sanders was a right-handed lower-order batsman and a right-arm medium-pace bowler who played as a professional. He first appeared in first-class cricket in the 1928 season and was identified in the ""Wisden Cricketers' Almanack"" report on Warwickshire for that season as ""a player of real promise"". He played in a dozen matches that season and against Northamptonshire he took four first-innings"
"Albert Rhodes (Lancashire cricketer) Albert Rhodes (9 April 1889 – 10 March 1970) was an English cricketer. Rhodes was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm slow-medium. He was born in Saddleworth in the former West Riding of Yorkshire. Rhodes made his first-class debut for Lancashire against Warwickshire at Edgbaston in the 1922 County Championship. He made sixteen further first-class appearances for the county, the last of which came against Essex at the County Ground, Leyton, in the 1924 County Championship. In his seventeen first-class appearances, Rhodes scored 382 runs at an average of 17.36, with a high score of 70."
"not out against Warwickshire and had two 5-wicket innings. After an uneventful season in 1939, Rhodes peak career was interrupted by the Second World War. In the 1946 season he took 7 for 109 against Glamorgan and achieved three more five wicket innings. In the 1947 season he achieved his best bowling performance of 8 for 162 against Yorkshire and four more 5 wicket innings. In the 1948 season he scored 105 not out against Hampshire and took two five wicket innings. He made his top score of 127 against Somerset and 126 against Nottinghamshire in the 1949 season and"
"School offered Rhodes the post of professional cricket coach, which he accepted. Rhodes missed several matches towards the end of the 1930 season, before ending his career at the Scarborough Festival. His last match was for H. D. G. Leveson Gower's XI against the Australians, where his figures were five for 93; he took a wicket with his last ball in first-class cricket. Rhodes's figures for his final season were 73 wickets at an average of 19.10 and 478 runs at an average of 22.76. Over his career Rhodes appeared in 1,110 first-class matches, which remains a world record in"
"a lot of energy"". He was not selected for the Third or Fourth Tests, both of which ended in draws; after the fourth match Carr, whose leadership had been criticised and whose batting form was poor, was replaced as England's captain by Percy Chapman for the series' decisive match at the Oval. Primarily at the urging of Hobbs, Larwood was recalled for this critical game. On a tumultuous final day the Australians, needing 415 to win, were bowled out for 125, the main bowling honours being shared between Larwood (3 wickets for 34) and the 49-year-old veteran Wilfred Rhodes (4"
"he played his last first-class game in 1934, though he was in the Warwickshire second eleven up to 1937. Wilfred Sanders Wilfred Sanders (4 April 1910 – 22 May 1965) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket between 1928 and 1934 for Warwickshire. He was born in Chilvers Coton, Warwickshire, and died in Nuneaton, also in Warwickshire. Sanders was a right-handed lower-order batsman and a right-arm medium-pace bowler who played as a professional. He first appeared in first-class cricket in the 1928 season and was identified in the ""Wisden Cricketers' Almanack"" report on Warwickshire for that season as ""a"
"and he played for a South African Colts XI against the touring MCC side in 1964–65, scoring 63, and later in the tour for an Invitation XI. When the Australians toured in 1966–67, he scored 107 in 160 minutes for a strong South African XI against them before the First Test, but despite several failures by the top-order batsmen in the Test series, he was unable to break into the national side. Richards was a prolific scorer in county cricket for many years for Hampshire. He scored 2395 runs in his first season, 1968, more than anybody else in the"
"believed that this season marked the completion of his transformation into a batsman. This view was supported by ""Wisden"", which judged that he had ""now become such an exceptionally good batsman that the regret one used to feel at his ever giving his mind to run getting has lost its force."" He played in four of the five Tests against Australia in 1909; his omission from the second Test was later described as an error of judgement by the editor of ""Wisden"", one of many selectorial blunders as England lost the series two games to one. Rhodes scored 168 runs"
"die (on 16 June 1880). Miran Bakhsh was known as Miran Bux during his playing career. The longest-lived first-class cricketer is believed to have been John Manners. ""See also Longest-lived first-class cricketers below."" Source: Note: The Test career of Wilfred Rhodes spanned a record 30 years, 315 days. England's youngest Test cricketer and another Yorkshireman, Brian Close (born 24 February 1931), lies second in this regard. He made his debut against New Zealand in 1949 and was recalled, after an absence of almost nine years, to oppose West Indies in 1976 (his career lasting 26 years, 356 days). Source: This"