Rhodes Keeps Surival Bid Alive Worcestershire V Lancashire

The Sunday Telegraph London (September 12, 2004)

Author: Paul Bolton At New Road

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THERE IS no such thing as a lost cause when Steve Rhodes is around. So it was no surprise that Worcestershire's captain spent his penultimate day as a county cricketer battling to keep his side in the First Division.

Worcestershire knew that even a victory in their final game of the season might not save them from an immediate return to the Second Division. At 77 for 5 and with 254 required to save the follow-on their fate appeared sealed.

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Rhodes Keeps Surival Bid Alive Worcestershire V Lancashire

But Rhodes kept an escape route open by playing the sort of cussed inning...

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