Clive Rice
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Clive Edward Butler Rice (b. 23 July 1949 in Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa) was a South African cricketer.
During the 1980's, Rice was considered one of the best all-rounders in the world with a career batting average in first class cricket of 40 and bowling average of 22. Though this time co-incided with South Africa's sporting boycott.
Rice played three one-day internationals for South Africa following the return from sporting isolation. He was subsequently left out of the squad for the1992 Cricket World Cup.
He began his career with Transvaal in 1969 and was called up for South Africa's cancelled tour of Australia in 1970. In South African domsetic cricket he successfully captained the Natal and led Transvaal to 3 Castle Currie Cups and other one day competitions victories.
Rice played for Nottinghamshire in the English County Championship alongside Richard Hadlee and Derek Randall. He led the side to the Championship in 1981 and 1987. Afterwards he went to play for Scotland.
He joined World Series Cricket with other exiled South Africans to test himself against the rest of the world's best and captained the South African national side for most of the rebel tours to the country during the 1980's.
After retirement Rice worked as coach for Nottinghamshire and encouraged Kevin Pietersen to leave South Africa to qualify for England. He currently heads a Sports Tour and Bush safari company. He is married with two children.
