Clive Rice
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Full name | Clive Edward Butler Rice | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Johannesburg, South Africa | 23 July 1949||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 28 July 2015 Johannesburg, South Africa | (aged 66)||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right-arm fast-medium | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | All-rounder | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Relations | Philip Bower (grandfather) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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ODI debut (cap 7) | 10 November 1991 v India | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last ODI | 14 November 1991 v India | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1970/71–1991/92 | Natal | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: CricketArchive, 18 January 2008 |
Clive Edward Butler Rice (23 July 1949 – 28 July 2015) was a South African international cricketer.[1] An all-rounder, Rice ended his First Class cricket career with a batting average of 40.95 and a bowling average of 22.49. He captained Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club from 1979 to 1987.
His career coincided directly with South Africa's sporting isolation, and his international experience was limited to his post-prime days. He played three
On 28 July 2015, Rice died in hospital at the age of 66, suffering from a brain tumour.[6]
Early and personal life
Rice was born to Patrick and Angela
Rice worked for a street-lighting company called Envirolight in Johannesburg and his wife Susan heads a Sports Tour and Bush safari company. The couple have two children.
Career
Domestic career
Rice began his career with
He became the first cricketer to score 5000 runs and to take 500 wickets in List A cricket history[9]
Career in English domestic cricket
Rice played for
International cricket
Along with other South African players, excluded from international cricket by the
During the 1980s, a number of rebel cricket teams visited South Africa to play unofficial "Test" matches. Rice captained the home side for the majority of these fixtures.
Rice was able to make his debut in official international cricket in 1991, when, aged 42, he played in—and captained—South Africa's first
Later career
After retirement Rice worked as coach for Nottinghamshire and encouraged
Opinions about match fixing
In September 2010, Rice claimed in an interview to Fox News that betting syndicates were involved in the deaths of Pakistan coach Bob Woolmer and former South African captain Hansie Cronje. Fox Sports quoted Rice as saying: "These mafia betting syndicates do not stop at anything and they do not care who gets in their way." Former Pakistan coach Geoff Lawson had earlier told Fox Sports that match-fixing "might not be about money, it might be about extortion, and all the things that go on".[16]
Illness and death
Rice was diagnosed with a brain tumour in September 1998 and received treatment in Hanover, Germany.[17] In February 2015, Rice collapsed at his house in Johannesburg and scans at a local hospital found that, as his tumour was located deep down, it could not be removed by a neurosurgeon by invasive surgery.[18] Rice then went to Health Care Global in Bangalore, India and received robotic radiation treatment to have the tumour removed. The surgery was successful and Rice returned home in March 2015.[19] On the morning of 28 July 2015, Rice died from sepsis in the Morningside hospital in Johannesburg.
References
- ^ Mason, Peter (28 July 2015). "Clive Rice obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 28 July 2015.
- ^ Vijaya Kumar, K.C. (8 March 2015). "Can't doesn't exist, the word 'can' does: Clive Rice". thehindu.com. Retrieved 8 March 2015.
- ^ "Titans hail Rice's contribution to the game". Sport24. 28 July 2015. Retrieved 28 July 2015.
- independent.co.uk. Retrieved 28 July 2015.
- telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 28 July 2015.
- ^ "Clive Rice dies aged 66". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 28 July 2015.
- ^ a b Sproat, p. 341.
- ^ Player Profile, Cricinfo, Retrieved on 29 March 2009
- ^ "Records | List A matches | All-round records | 5000 runs and 500 wickets | ESPN Cricinfo". Cricinfo. Retrieved 4 May 2017.
- ^ Wisden's Five Cricketers of the Year, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, Retrieved on 29 March 2009
- ^ India v South Africa, South Africa in India 1991/92 (1st ODI), ODI no. 686, Cricinfo, Retrieved on 16 April 2009
- ^ Player Profile, Cricinfo, Retrieved on 16 April 2009
- ^ South Africa's decline because of 'apartheid in reverse', Cricinfo, Retrieved on 29 March 2009
- ^ Rice furious at 'apartheid in reverse', The Telegraph, Retrieved on 24 July 2011
- ^ Richard Williams (8 January 2009). "Just not cricket ... the most un-English of England captains heads for the pavilion". The Guardian. Retrieved 30 July 2015.
- ^ "Cronje, Woolmer murdered by mafia betting syndicates: Rice – Thaindian News". Thaindian.com. 8 September 2010. Archived from the original on 7 November 2011. Retrieved 30 July 2015.
- ^ "Clive Rice diagnosed as having a brain tumour (28 September 1998)". ESPNcricinfo. 27 September 1998. Retrieved 28 July 2015.
- ^ "Clive Rice confident laser knife can remove new tumours". news24.com. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 28 July 2015.
- ^ "Clive Rice successfully returns home to SA from India after getting brain tumour treated in HCG". Business Standard. 24 March 2015. Retrieved 28 July 2015.
Sources
- Sproat, I. (1988) The Cricketers' Who's Who 1988, Willow Books: London. ISBN 0 00 218285 8.