Steve Rhodes

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Steve Rhodes

England
Batting style	Right-handed batsman (RHB)
Career statistics
	Tests	ODIs
Matches	11	9
Runs scored	294	107
Batting average	24.50	17.83
100s/50s	0/1	0/1
Top score	65*	56

Overs	N/A	0
Wickets	N/A	N/A
Bowling average	N/A	N/A
5 wickets in innings	N/A	N/A
10 wickets in match	N/A	n/a
Best bowling	N/A	N/A
Catches/stumpings	46/3	9/2
As of 27 May 2005 Source: [1]

Steven John Rhodes (born 17 June 1964 in Bradford, Yorkshire) is a former English cricketer. He was best known as a wicket-keeper but was also a useful number six or seven batsman making twelve first-class centuries.

Emerging initially out of the Birstall club, Rhodes' county cricket career began with Yorkshire in 1981. The incumbent was the international keeper David Bairstow and after limited chances, in 1985 he moved to Worcestershire, staying with that county for the remaining two decades of his playing career.

He was selected for the England tour to India in 1988/89, but when this was cancelled for political reasons he lost his chance, and it was to be 1994 before he made his Test match debut. He made an immediate impression, taking six catches and scoring 49, but though a tidy keeper he never made enough runs for the selectors' liking, and after the following winter's Ashes series he was dropped and never regained his place.
Towards the end of the 2004 season, Rhodes briefly became County Captain when Ben Smith resigned during the home game with Northants.

In May 2005, Worcestershire announced that Rhodes had been appointed as head coach following the departure of Tom Moody.

Rhodes was named as a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1994.

His father William Rhodes played more than 30 times for Nottinghamshire in the early 1960s.