deliveries columns catches/stumpings year birth_date tenfor bowling country club fivefor batting name fullname birth_place column source date runs wickets s/s matches article_title
balls 16,936 6,991 2 153 ; / & ndash ; 74 / & ndash 1983 -- 1984 1971 -- 1982 2009 23 october 1949 & ndash ; & ndash ; right-arm medium england wiltshire hampshire 3 2 right-handed john rice john michael rice chandler 's ford , hampshire , england fc la http://www.cricinfo.com/england/content/player/19379.html cricinfo 1949 10 23 yes 5,091 2,397 230 189 2/22 & ndash ; / 12 168 180 john rice -lrb- cricketer -rrb-

john rice -lrb- cricketer -rrb-

john michael rice -lrb- born at chandlers ford on 23 october 1949 -rrb- is a retired english cricketer who played for hampshire from 1971 -- 1982 , and briefly from 1983-1984 for wiltshire .
educated at brockley county grammar school , rice was a right-handed batsman and right-arm medium pace bowler .
after appearing for surrey 's second team in 1970 , rice played 168 first class games and 178 one-day matches for hampshire , as well as 2 one-day matches for wiltshire .
rice had a career as an all-rounder , and was sometimes used as an opening batsman .
he scored 5,091 runs and took 230 wickets in first-class matches and 2,397 runs and 189 wickets in one-day cricket .
in 1975 rice shared a stand of 61 for the tenth wicket with andy roberts in a one-day match against gloucestershire , a hampshire record for the tenth wicket which remains to this day .
rice left hampshire at the end of the 1982 county championship season , and finally retired from the game in 1984 after a brief spell in minor counties cricket with wiltshire .
