adminWELLINGTON. – New Zealand cricket legend Richard Hadlee paid a moving tribute to former Nottinghamshire team mate Clive Rice yesterday, describing the South African as one of the greatest cricketers never to have played a Test match. Hadlee said it was sad that Rice, who died of cancer on Tuesday aged 66, never had the chance to play Test cricket.
This was because South Africa’s apartheid ban coincided with his prime playing years.
“Whether it be Test cricket, whether it be one-day cricket, I can sit here and comfortably say that he would have competed with the best,” Hadlee told Radio Sport.
Hadlee and Rice played together at English county Nottinghamshire for 10 years from 1978, forming a formidable all-round partnership that helped claim two County Championships in 1981 and 1987. – AFP.
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