Hiram Rhodes (11 December 1850 – 1 January 1891) was an English-born

cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...

er. He played three first-class matches in New Zealand for

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, one in each of the 1872–73, 1873–74 and 1876–77 seasons. Rhodes was born at Lockwood in

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in 1850.McCarron A (2010) ''New Zealand Cricketers 1863/64–2010'', p. 112. Cardiff: The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians.
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at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 5 June 2023.) He made his representative debut for Otago against

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in February 1873, scoring eight runs in the match which was the only first-class match played in New Zealand during the season. The following season he played against

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before returning to play a final match against Canterbury in January 1877. Later during the season he played in a side of 18 for Otago against a touring English side led by John Lillywhite and during the following season played in a side of 22 against the touring Australians.Hiram Rhodes
CricketArchive. Retrieved 15 December 2023. At a time when long stop was an important fielding position, Rhodes was considered perhaps the best long stop in New Zealand in the 1870s. In New Zealand Rhodes worked as a warehouseman in

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. He later returned to England and died of

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in 1891, leaving a widow and two children.

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* 1850 births 1891 deaths New Zealand cricketers Otago cricketers Cricketers from Huddersfield English emigrants to New Zealand Deaths from influenza in the United Kingdom {{NewZealand-cricket-bio-1850s-stub