1. Clive Edward Butler Rice was a South African international cricketer.
18 Facts About Clive Rice
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An all-rounder, Rice ended his First Class cricket career with a batting average of 40.95 and a bowling average of 22.49.
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Clive Rice captained Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club from 1979 to 1987.
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Clive Rice's career coincided directly with South Africa's sporting isolation, and his international experience was limited to his post-prime days.
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Clive Rice played three One Day Internationals for South Africa following the country's return from sporting isolation.
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Clive Rice was controversially left out of the squads for the one-off Test against West Indies and the 1992 Cricket World Cup.
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On 28 July 2015, Clive Rice died in hospital at the age of 66, suffering from a brain tumour.
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Clive Rice was born to Patrick and Angela on 23 July 1949 in Johannesburg, Transvaal Province, Union of South Africa.
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Clive Rice worked for a street-lighting company called Envirolight in Johannesburg and his wife Susan heads a Sports Tour and Bush safari company.
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Clive Rice became the first cricketer to score 5000 runs and to take 500 wickets in List A cricket history.
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Clive Rice played for Nottinghamshire in the English County Championship in a side that featured internationals Richard Hadlee and Derek Randall.
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Clive Rice captained the home side for the majority of these fixtures.
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Clive Rice finished with averages of 13 with the bat and 57 with the ball from his three One Day International matches.
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In September 2010, Clive 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.
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Clive Rice was diagnosed with a brain tumour in September 1998 and received treatment in Hanover, Germany.
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In February 2015, Clive 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.
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Clive Rice then went to Health Care Global in Bangalore, India and received robotic radiation treatment to have the tumour removed.
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The surgery was successful and Clive Rice returned home in March 2015.