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Jonty Rhodes

South Africa

Full name Jonathan Neil Rhodes
Born July 27, 1969, Pietermaritzberg, Natal
Current age 37 years 69 days
Major teams

Ireland, South Africa, Gloucestershire, KwaZulu-Natal, Natal
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm medium

Batting and fielding averages

class	mat	inns	no	runs	hs	ave	bf	sr	100	50	4s	6s	ct	st
Tests	52	80	9	2532	117	35.66	5536	45.73	3	17	256	22	34	0
ODIs	245	220	51	5935	121	35.11	7335	80.91	2	33	392	47	105	0
First-class	164	263	31	9546	172	41.14			22	52			127	0
List A	371	339	68	8907	121	32.86			2	51			158	0
Twenty20	6	5	0	49	42	9.80	52	94.23	0	0			1	0

Bowling averages

class	mat	balls	runs	wkts	bbi	bbm	ave	econ	sr	4	5	10
Tests	52	12	5	0	-	-	-	2.50	-	0	0	0
ODIs	245	14	4	0	-	-	-	1.71	-	0	0	0
First-class	164	162	83	1	1/13		83.00	3.07	162.00		0	0
List A	371	80	45	2	1/2	1/2	22.50	3.37	40.00	0	0	0
Twenty20	6	0	0	0	-	-	-	-	-	0	0	0

Career statistics
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Test debut	South Africa v India at Durban - Nov 13-17, 1992 scorecard
Last Test	Sri Lanka v South Africa at Colombo (SSC) - Aug 6-10, 2000 scorecard
ODI debut	Australia v South Africa at Sydney - Feb 26, 1992 scorecard
Last ODI	South Africa v Kenya at Potchefstroom - Feb 12, 2003 scorecard
First-class span	1988/89 - 2003
List A span	1988/89 - 2004/05
Twenty20 span	2003

Profile

The Jonty Rhodes legend may have begun with the diving run-out of Inzamam-ul-Haq during the 1992 World Cup but it would never have grown as it did without genuine substance. Rhodes worked harder than anyone else in a team of hard workers, frequently delaying the team bus at the end of practice for one more round of reflex catches hit from ten metres or less. Nobody has ever fielded better in the key one-day position of backward point, where he leapt like a salmon, threw off balance, and stopped singles by reputation alone. He laboured just as hard over his batting which needed, and underwent, a complete technical overhaul in 1997 - whereupon he averaged 50 for the rest of his Test career, until he gave it up to concentrate on one-day cricket in 2000. The problem was a tendency to bring the bat down from gully and through to midwicket, a legacy of the extraordinary hockey skills that brought him selection for the Olympic Games in 1996 - an offer he had to refuse. Few batsmen have turned the quick single into a finer art form, and his willingness to experiment and adapt enabled him to lead the way with the reverse-sweep under Bob Woolmer's tutelage. But Rhodes was just as likely to delay the bus by relentlessly signing autographs for gaggles of persistent children; the arrival of his own, a daughter, was instrumental in his semi-retirement. Indeed, Rhodes may have become the first cricketer to claim paternity leave. Rightly, there is give and take in Rhodes's life. He has more endorsements than any team-sport player in South Africa's history, is at the forefront of the sporting dotcom revolution, and is constantly exploring the boundaries and horizons of commerce. His final retirement was hastened by an inopportune finger-fracture early in the 2003 World Cup, although there was still time for a successful farewell season in county cricket for Gloucestershire.