Proteas ex-captain Rice dies
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Clive Rice, South Africa鈥檚 first post-apartheid international cricket captain and a formidable player who never got the opportunity to show his talent in tests, died yesterday aged 66.
Rice was diagnosed with a brain tumor after collapsing in February. He traveled to India for what he hoped would be life-saving surgery after doctors in South Africa said he was going to die. 鈥淲ell, that鈥檚 what we鈥檙e all going to do, but I鈥檓 not in a hurry,鈥 Rice said in an interview in March after the surgery.
He died in a Cape Town hospital yesterday, five days after his birthday.
鈥淐live was our first captain and we knew him to be a great fighter all his life,鈥 Cricket South Africa chief executive Haroon Lorgat said.
Although he led South Africa鈥檚 cricket team out of isolation in 1991, Rice鈥檚 career coincided almost exactly with, and was spoiled by, the sporting ban because of apartheid.
He was 22 and a young star when picked for the test tour to Australia in the 1971-72 season, only for that series to be canceled because of apartheid.
So, he had to wait 20 years to finally make his international debut, captaining South Africa at age 42 when the country returned from isolation in 1991 with a three-game one-day international series in India.
But, rated as too old, he was dropped for South Africa鈥檚 first test after apartheid later that year in the West Indies, and also from the 1992 World Cup squad 鈥 a hugely contentious decision in South Africa. He never played for his country again.
Although his international career stands at just three ODI games, he was one of the world鈥檚 best allrounders in the 1970s and 1980s, captaining Nottinghamshire to two English county titles.
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