Steve Rhodes

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Steve Rhodes England (Eng)

Batting style	Right-handed batsman (RHB)
Bowling type
	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 bowled	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: Cricinfo.com

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 lower-order batsman who has made twelve first-class centuries.

Rhodes' county cricket career began with Yorkshire in 1981, but he was usually behind David Bairstow in the pecking order and 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.

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.