William Rhodes (4 March 1883 – 5 August 1941) was an English

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er, who played one match for

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in 1911, when he also played for the Second XI. He bowled eleven overs of right arm pace for 40 runs, against the Indian Tourists at

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, but failed to take a wicket. Rhodes was left one not out in his only innings. Yorkshire won the match by an innings and 43 runs.

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, writing as "Old Ebor" in the ''

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'' during the course of the match, was not complimentary about Rhodes. "I doubt whether Rhodes makes the most of his physical abilities," Pullin wrote. "He has a short ambling run, and does not go through with his delivery, and it is not by these restricted movements that fast bowling usually is developed." Before his single first-class appearance, Rhodes was briefly profiled in '' Cricket: A Weekly Record of the Game'' as "the Bankfoot fast bowler who has been showing such promising form of late in Yorkshire". The article says that Rhodes had played for cricket clubs at

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, Fifeshire in Scotland and at

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before joining Bankfoot CC in 1910; in his first season for Bankfoot in the

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he took 86 wickets at a cost of just over seven runs apiece. Rhodes was born at

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in 1883 and died there in August 1941 at the age of 58.William Rhodes

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. Retrieved 21 November 2023.

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* 1883 births 1941 deaths Cricketers from Bradford English cricketers of 1890 to 1918 English cricketers Yorkshire cricketers {{england-cricket-bio-1880s-stub