Nottingham pay respect to their adopted son — Clive Rice

A thunderous applause could be heard at Trent Bridge before the start of the fourth Ashes Test, as the crowd along with Australia and England paid their respect to Rice, who passed away on July 28.

He could have been the greatest all-rounder of his era and mind you the time we are talking of was ruled by the likes of Imran Khan, Ian Botham, Kapil Dev and Richard Hadlee. All that Clive Rice could play was three One-Day Internationals (ODIs) and his consolation was that he was South Africa’s first ODI captain. [Also Read: Cricket world pay their tributes to Clive Rice]

A thunderous applause could be heard at Trent Bridge before the start of the fourth Ashes Test, as the crowd along with Australia and England paid their respect to Rice, who passed away on July 28. Rice was Nottingham’s adopted son, who played county cricket for Nottinghamshire in between 1975 and 1987, during the days of South Africa’s isolation from international cricket. [Also Read: Clive Rice’s First-Class stats are as good or better than Imran Khan, Richard Hadlee, Ian Botham and Kapil Dev]

He captained the county side to several glories and later coached them. Rice succumbed to cancer, five days after his 66th birthday. [Also Read: Clive Rice: 10 interesting things to know about the brilliant all-rounder]

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