William Michael Harry Rhodes (born 2 March 1995) is a cricketer who plays for

Warwickshire Warwickshire (; abbreviated Warks) is a county in the West Midlands region of England. The county town is Warwick, and the largest town is Nuneaton. The county is famous for being the birthplace of William Shakespeare at Stratford-upon-Avon an ...

, having formerly played for

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and for the

England Under-19 cricket team The England Under-19 cricket team have been playing official Under-19 Test matches since 1974. Prior to 1991/92 they were known as England Young Cricketers. Former captains include Mike Atherton, Michael Vaughan, Alastair Cook and Andrew Flin ...

. He is an

all-rounder An all-rounder is a cricketer who regularly performs well at both batting and bowling. Although all bowlers must bat and quite a handful of batsmen do bowl occasionally, most players are skilled in only one of the two disciplines and are consi ...

. Rhodes made both his

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and

Twenty20 Twenty20 (T20) is a shortened game format of cricket. At the professional level, it was introduced by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) in 2003 for the inter-county competition. In a Twenty20 game, the two teams have a single innin ...

debuts for Yorkshire during the

2013 English cricket season The 2013 English cricket season was the 114th in which the County Championship had been an official competition. It began on 5 April with a round of university matches, and continued until the conclusion of a round of County Championship matche ...

. In the same year, he also made 102 for England Under 19s against the

Pakistan Under-19 cricket team Pakistan Under-19 cricket team are twice (2004 and 2006) Cricket World Champions at the under-19 level. Their second win made them the first, and to date only, back-to-back champions. They are also 3 time runners-up (1988, 2010 & 2014) and have ...

. Rhodes was the captain of the England Under 19s at the

2014 ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup The 2014 ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup was a one-day cricket competition for sixteen international U-19 cricketing teams which was played in the United Arab Emirates. This was the tenth edition of the tournament. Sixteen nations competed: the ten ...

held in the

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. He led the England U19s to victory over the tournament favorites, the India U19s, in the quarterfinals. In the semifinals, he rescued his side with an unbeaten 76 n.o. after the team was reduced to 119 for 6 in the 37th over. However, the England U19s lost the semifinal match to the Pakistan U19s in a tight contest. Rhodes nonetheless received praise for his captaincy in that match. In June 2017, it was announced that Rhodes would join

ahead of the 2018 season. In 2020 he was appointed Warwickshire club captain In July 2021, Rhodes was named as the captain of a County Select XI team to play India ahead of their Test series against England.

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