Wilfred Rhodes
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Wilfred Rhodes was an English professional cricketer who played 58 Test matches for England between 1899 and 1930. In Tests, Rhodes took 127 wickets and scored 2,325 runs, becoming the first Englishma
Wilfred Rhodes bowling in 1906
Wilfred Rhodes early in his career, around 1900
From left to right: Schofield Haigh, George Hirst and Rhodes. The Yorkshire teammates at Marsden, 1905.
Before and after pictures of Rhodes playing a drive, photographed by George Beldam in 1906
Hedley Verity
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Hedley Verity was a professional cricketer who played for Yorkshire and England between 1930 and 1939. A slow left-arm orthodox bowler, he took 1,956 wickets in first-class cricket at an average of 14
Wilfred Rhodes
…of the summer. He was finding it harder to take wickets, and the workload placed on him in the West Indies had decreased his enthusiasm for the game. Hedley Verity and Bill Bowes had by this time emerged to strengthen the Yorkshire bowling. Through an ex-captain of Yorkshire, Harrow School offered Rhodes the post…
Hedley Verity cigarette card
Wilfred Rhodes, Verity's predecessor as Yorkshire's left-arm spinner
Bowes and Verity in 1932
Douglas Jardine, Verity's captain in Australia and India, was an admirer of Verity.