jonty rhodes Profile - ICC Profile, Age, Career Info & Stats.
jonty rhodes is a cricketer(sportsman) from South Africa. His ICC profile, age, career info & stats are given below.
Full Name
Jonathan Neil Rhodes
Born
July 27, 1969, Pietermaritzberg, Natal
Age
54 years old
Batting Style
Right hand Bat
Bowling Style
Right arm Medium
Playing Role
Middle order Batter
Batting Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 52 | 245 | - | - |
Inn | 80 | 220 | - | - |
Runs | 2532 | 5935 | - | - |
Avg | 35.17 | 35.12 | - | - |
SR | 46.31 | 80.9 | - | - |
HS | 117 | 121 | - | - |
NO | 8 | 51 | - | - |
100s | 3 | 2 | - | - |
50s | 17 | 33 | - | - |
4s | 256 | 392 | - | - |
6s | 22 | 47 | - | - |
Bowling Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 52 | 245 | - | - |
Inn | 2 | 2 | - | - |
Balls | 12 | 14 | - | - |
Runs | 5 | 4 | - | - |
Wkt | 0 | 0 | - | - |
BBI | 0 / 0 | 1 / 0 | - | - |
BBM | 0 / 0 | 1 / 0 | - | - |
Eco | 2.5 | 1.71 | - | - |
Avg | 0.0 | 0.0 | - | - |
5W | 0 | 0 | - | - |
10W | 0 | 0 | - | - |
Teams he has played for:
- South Africa
- Ireland
- Gloucestershire
- KwaZulu-Natal
Heres what CricBuzz says about him.
Jonty was also a very hard-worker, playing cricket did not come naturally to him. For the first few years, he made it to the team only because of his fielding prowess but he soon realised that he had to contribute with the bat as well. A complete change in his batting technique, helped him improve his skills as a batsman. After the change, he averaged more than 50 in Tests and in ODIs he was a innovative, and was one of the first batsman to play the reverse-sweep.
Rhodes was also one of the first cricketers to take paternity leave, he took a semi-retirement when his daughter was born. At one stage in his career, Jonty had more endorsements than any other team-sports player in South Africa. An unfortunate fracture on the finger during the 2003 World Cup cut-short his career. He soon retired and went onto play for Gloucestershire in County Cricket.
After retiring from all forms of cricket, Jonty was hired by Standard Bank as an account executive. He is also the current fielding coach of the South African national team and Mumbai Indians in the IPL.
Interesting facts: Jonty was called for hockey trials to the 1996 Olympics, but he was ruled out due to an hamstring injury.
He was voted as one of Wisden Cricketer's of the Year in 1999.
In SABC3's Great South Africans television series, Jonty was voted 29th in the Top 100 South Africans.
by Akshay Maanay
As of May 2014
Heres what ESPNcricinfo says about him.
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. Neil Manthorp