Famous Cricketers No 66 - Wilfred Rhodes

SEASON’S AVERAGES Batting and Fielding M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct Test matches 5 7 6 67 38* 67.00 - - 4 Players v Gentlemen 2 3 1 52 19* 26.00 - - 2 Championship 22 24 5 299 92* 15.73 - 1 7 Other Yorkshire matches 6 9 0 36 12 4.00 - - 4 Other matches 2 3 2 36 25* 36.00 - - 2 Season 37 46 14 490 92* 15.31 - 1 19 Career 176 223 59 2988 105 18.29 1 9 95 Bowling O M R W BB Ave 5i 10m Test matches 140.5 38 336 22 7-17 15.27 2 - Players v Gentlemen 61.3 21 103 8 5-71 12.87 1 - Championship 876.4 291 1748 140 8-26 12.18 12 5 Other Yorkshire matches 147.5 45 370 34 6-15 10.88 3 - Other matches 79.4 10 244 9 5-115 27.11 1 - Season (6-ball) 1306.3 405 2801 213 8-26 13.15 19 5 Career (6-ball) 4424.4 1365 } 15515 1058 9-24 14.66 92 28 (5-ball) 2748.4 1029 1903 Rhodes just missed out on another 200 wicket tally, taking 193 wickets including four totals of ten or more in a match. He completed the ‘double’ for the first of sixteen occasions and made his highest score to date, 98 against the M.C.C. on the Nursery ground at Lord’s. He decimated Worcestershire at Worcester with his best performance of the season taking 14-211 in 94.4 overs but Yorkshire failed to win the match. In July he had the extraordinary analysis of 5 wickets for 4 runs against Worcestershire at Huddersfield. In consecutive matches at the end of July he took 23 wickets: 10-81 at the Oval, not one of his favourite venues - the pitches were too true - and 13-152 against Lancashire at Bradford. At the Hastings festival in September he had another good return, 13-118 against the cream of England’s batsmen dismissing Tom Hayward and Ranjitsinhji twice in the match and also getting ‘W.G.’ On his form in these early seasons he was an automatic choice for the M.C.C. tour of Australia in the winter. Own Team O M R W Opp Ct Total Total 177. Yorkshire v MCC & Ground, Nursery Ground, Lord’s, May (11), (12), 13 (Match drawn) not out 98 184 5 1 9 1 L.C.Braund b 133 178. Yorkshire v Essex, Leyton, May 14, 15, 16 (Yorkshire won by 261 runs) c E.H.D.Sewell b W.Mead 24 240 6.5 0 22 3 C.J.Kortright c G.H.Hirst 96 H.I.Young c J.Tunnicliffe W.Mead b b W.Mead 16 189 - - - - 72 179. Yorkshire v Gloucestershire, Bristol, May 18, 19 (Yorkshire won by an innings and 142 runs) b E.J.Spry 42 313 31 15 39 4 H.Wrathall lbw 101 1 W.H.Hale c D.Hunter J.H.Board b A.J.Paish lbw 16 5 34 4 T.H.Fowler c and b 70 1 H.Wrathall c J.Tunnicliffe W.H.Rowlands st D.Hunter F.G.Roberts c J.Tunnicliffe 180. Yorkshire v Somerset, Taunton, May 21, 22 (Somerset won by six wickets) c L.C.Braund b E.Robson 0 147 29 5 71 3 S.M.J.Woods b 256 P.R.Johnson c W.H.Wilkinson F.M.Lee b c A.E.Newton b L.C.Braund 33 190 8 2 20 1 P.R.Johnson c D.Denton 82-4 1 29