Vale Clive Rice

[Gough]

http://www.theguardian.com/sport/20...me-who-fell-victim-to-south-africas-isolation
Probably the best player to never play a Test, sad collateral damage of the Apartheid regime. This is a good documentary on that lost generation of Springbok cricketers, Omar Henry, and Proccy, also give some good insight to the madness of the policy.

 

[Registered User]

No good. Only 66. He was interviewed a few times on SEN, and he sounded like a decent guy with a good sense of humour

 

[sherb]

Oh, that's sad.

His first-class record as an allrounder was simply outstanding.

It's such a shame he never played Test Cricket.

Vale.

 

[Registered User]

Ah, bugger! It says on his Wikipedia page that he bloody died of sepsis after successfully having his second brain tumour removed. I guess it could've been complications from the surgery.

First class batting average of 41 and his bowling average is 22.5.
48 centuries and 137 fifties!!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clive_Rice

 

[Hellgood]

Before my time, but impressive the way almost everyone who got to see him speaks of him in revered tones.

Stats are terrific and plenty of great anecdotes about with him as a central figure:

Matters weren't helped by Rice allowing himself to be photographed by a Sunday Times photographer over New Year a couple of weeks beforehand, when Transvaal were down in the Cape to play their traditional Currie Cup fixture against Western Province. Rice, wearing a Father Christmas hat and false beard, was ferried into the lobby of a Newlands hotel in a wheelchair pushed by Jimmy Cook. The caption referred jauntily to "the two old men of SA cricket hoping that the selectors saw the funny side of their jape", but legend has it that van der Merwe was not amused. Rice never played for South Africa again, although Cook was forgiven.

http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/903941.html#all

Looking at the lineups of some of the domestic South African teams from that era is pretty incredible seeing the talent in there. Do you guys get to see any of Vince van der Bilj? Have been reading through a few cricket books from that era and there is almost a sense of awe about him.

 

[Bomberboyokay]

http://www.theguardian.com/sport/20...me-who-fell-victim-to-south-africas-isolation
Probably the best player to never play a Test, sad collateral damage of the Apartheid regime. This is a good documentary on that lost generation of Springbok cricketers, Omar Henry, and Proccy, also give some good insight to the madness of the policy.

Having to play domestic cricket was a small price to pay in the fight to bring basic human rights and democracy to most South Africans. Consider that present day Iran is more democratic than apartheid South Africa.