Who has played the maximum number of the matches in the first class cricket ?

Wilfred Rhodes owns the record for playing the most number of First-Class matches in the history of cricket. He played 1,110 matches in his First-Class career and holds the record by a huge margin of the second-positioned Frank Woolley who has played 978 matches.

Wilfred Rhodes was an England and Yorkshire faithful player, who made his contribution to Test cricket for more than 3 decades. A right-handed batsman & a slow left-arm orthodox bowler, He made 30,000 runs with an average of 30 innings for Yorkshire and took 3,597 wickets at 16 runs each. He also holds unique partnership records while having the battingas well as performing at number XI. 

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