Clive Radley

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Clive Radley

England
Batting style	Right-hand bat
Bowling style	Legbreak
Career statistics
	Tests	ODIs
Matches	8	4
Runs scored	481	250
Batting average	48.10	83.33
100s/50s	2/2	1/1
Top score	158	117*

Balls bowled	-	-
Wickets	-	-
Bowling average	-	-
5 wickets in innings	-	-
10 wickets in match	-	n/a
Best bowling	-	-
Catches/stumpings	4/-	-/-
As of 1 January 2006 Source: [1]

Clive Thornton Radley MBE (born 13 May 1944 at Hertford) was an English cricketer who played eight Tests and four One Day Internationals for England. He was selected as a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1979.

His batting average in Tests (48.10) was substantially higher than he achieved in all first-class cricket (35.44), despite his not making his Test debut until the comparatively advanced age of thirty-three. After years of scurrying accumulation for Middlesex Mike Brearley's accession to the England captaincy did his international cause no harm. Sadly, his brief Test career was ended prematurely by a bad blow to the head in the first match on the 1978-9 tour of Australia. He is one of the few international cricketers to make a century in his last one day international, against New Zealand in 1978.

His long career with Middlesex lasted from 1964 to 1987, when he was in his mid-40s. He scored 26.441 runs in first-class cricket of 559 matches, making 46 hundreds, with a best of 200. Never the most gifted of stroke makers, he relied on picking the gaps, running hard and refusing to give his wicket away. He also played for Auckland in New Zealand.

On his retirement as a player he became MCC head coach, in succession to Don Wilson. He was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2008 New Year Honours. ^[1].