Rice (Middlesex cricketer)
Encyclopedia
Rice was an English amateur cricket
er who made 13 known appearances in major cricket matches from 1794 to 1797.
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Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
er who made 13 known appearances in major cricket matches from 1794 to 1797.
Career
Sometimes calling himself Smith, he was mainly associated with MiddlesexMiddlesex county cricket teams
Middlesex county cricket teams have been traced back to the 18th century but the county's involvement in cricket goes back much further than that. Given that the first definite mention of cricket anywhere in the world is dated c.1550 in Guildford, it is almost certain that the game had reached...
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