Famous Cricketers No 66 - Wilfred Rhodes

1083. MCC v Jamaica, Kingston, March 22, 24, 25, 26 (Match drawn) c J.K.Holt b O.C.Scott 14 220 28 11 57 4 W.G.Beckford lbw 248 J.K.Holt c G.T.S.Stevens L.G.Hylton b F.R.Martin c L.E.G.Ames did not bat - 441-6d 19 5 37 1 R.K.Nunes c E.H.Hendren 324-4 1084. ENGLAND v WEST INDIES, Kingston, April 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, (11), (12) (Match drawn) not out 8 849 20.5 12 17 1 H.C.Griffith c E.H.Hendren 286 not out 11 272-9d 24 13 22 1 C.A.Roach c G.Gunn 408-5 SEASON’S AVERAGES Batting and Fielding M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct Test matches 4 7 5 51 14 25.50 - - 3 Other matches 5 5 2 78 36 26.00 - - 2 Tour 9 12 7 129 36 25.80 - - 5 Career 1084 1505 229 39431 267* 30.90 58 196 756 Bowling O M R W BB Ave 5i 10m Test matches 256 92 453 10 3-110 45.30 - - Other matches 245.1 80 494 29 5-59 17.03 2 - Tour (6-ball) 501.1 172 947 39 5-59 24.28 2 - Career (6-ball) 27902.2 8195 } 68927 4131 9-24 16.68 285 67 (5-ball) 2748.4 1029 1930 So Rhodes’s career came to an end and his final season at the age of 52 saw him finish with 73 wickets and the experience of bowling to Don Bradman whose abilities he acknowledged wholeheartedly. His final match was for H.D.G.Leveson-Gower’s XI in the Scarborough Festival against the Australians when he had Bradman missed three times while taking 5-95. Thus ended the career of the greatest wicket-taker of all time and a candidate for one of the truly great, if not the greatest, all-rounder. His total of 1,110 first-class appearances is the most by any player as is his total of 1,534 innings. Own Team O M R W Opp Ct Total Total 1085. Yorkshire v Australians, Bramall Lane, May 10, 12, (13) (Match drawn) not out 6 155 31.5 5 95 3 V.Y.Richardson c A.Wood 320 E.L.A’Beckett st A.Wood P.M.Hornibrook st A.Wood 1086. Yorkshire v Cambridge University, Fenner’s, May 14, 15, 16 (Yorkshire won by ten wickets) not out 10 258 27.4 16 35 7 E.T.Killick c A.Mitchell 127 1 G.C.Grant lbw H.E.Carris b T.W.T.Baines lbw J.T.Morgan b H.R.W.Butterworth lbw F.R.Brown c and b did not bat - 127-0 30.3 7 51 3 E.T.Killick b 257 F.R.Brown b R.C.Rought-Rought lbw 1087. Yorkshire v Essex, Leyton, May 17, 19, 20 (Yorkshire won by 132 runs) st J.R.Sheffield b J.O’Connor12 290 22 7 35 1 J.A.Cutmore lbw 231 did not bat - 203-3d 21 10 34 0 130 1088. Yorkshire v Kent, Headingley, May 24, 26, 27 (Kent won by 54 runs) b A.P.Freeman 8 198 16 5 33 2 F.E.Woolley c G.G.Macaulay205 L.E.G.Ames b lbw b A.P.Freeman 5 242 12 0 47 1 T.F.Mitchell c E.Robinson 289 1089. Yorkshire v Essex, Dewsbury, May 28, 29, 30 (Match drawn) b T.P.B.Smith 6 365-9d 48 21 79 2 D.F.Pope b 379 M.S.Nichols b did not bat - 226-3 123