John Michael Rice (born 23 October 1949, at
Chandlers Ford
Chandler's Ford (originally The Ford and historically Chandlersford) is a largely residential area and civil parish in the Borough of Eastleigh in Hampshire, England. It has a population of 21,436 in the 2011 UK Census.
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) is a retired English
first-class cricketer who played for
Hampshire from 1971–1982, and briefly from 1983-1984 for
Wiltshire.
Educated at Brockley County Grammar School, Rice was a right-handed
batsman and right-arm
medium pace bowler. After appearing for
Surrey's second team in 1970, Rice played 168 first-class games and 178
one-day matches for Hampshire, as well as 2 one-day matches for Wiltshire.
Rice had a career as an all-rounder, and was sometimes used as an opening batsman. He scored 5,091 runs and took 230 wickets in first-class matches and 2,397 runs and 189 wickets in one-day cricket. In 1975 Rice shared a stand of 61 for the tenth wicket with
Andy Roberts in a one-day match against
Gloucestershire, a Hampshire record for the tenth wicket which remains to this day.
Rice left Hampshire at the end of the 1982 County Championship season, and finally retired from the game in 1984 after a brief spell in
Minor Counties cricket with Wiltshire. He was cricket coach at Eton College in 2010.
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1949 births
English cricketers
Hampshire cricketers
Wiltshire cricketers
People from Chandler's Ford
Living people
Cricketers from Hampshire