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Best and Worst of Clive Rice What Was the Best Moment of Your Cricket 14 Tuesday 5th January, 2010 Best and Worst of Clive Rice What was the best moment of your cricket. In World Series Cricket (WSC) tic. What is the best thing about the each light. The company is called career? you could get four short balls an over. We Who was the best captain you modern game? Envirolight and, with the emphasis now had a lot of fantastic moments, includ- had a game at VFL Park in Melbourne in played under? Batsman are more innovative now. We on climate change, we have to save ener- ing captaining South Africa when we 1979 on the quickest wicket we had ever Tony Greig was a good captain in would never have dreamt of playing some gy in the world and be more efficient in Igot back into international cricket played. The World XI was bowled out for terms of making you believe in yourself of the shots they play. The game moves a what we do. We have to wake up and sort [after apartheid] with a tour to India in 102 and we had the West Indies 67 for and getting stuck in. Mike Brearley, who whole lot faster. it out. Kapil Dev is our agent in India 1991. When we arrived, the streets from nine. Joel Garner was batting and I was very shrewd, and Ian Chappell were What was the best sledge you heard? and, believe me, India needs street lights. the airport to the hotel were lined with people. It was overwhelming and I thought: “Let’s take another route to the hotel to get out of this environment.” We On the trip we met Mother had to stop every 400m and get out of the coach to do some more speaking to the Teresa, and there is a classic public. It was an incredible welcome. There must have been about 6,000 people photograph of me shaking outside the hotel to catch a glimpse of the players climbing onto the team bus. I had hands with her. I had the pic- to pinch myself when 100,000 people came ture mounted on the wall next to watch our game in Kolkata. On the trip we met Mother Teresa, and there is a clas- to my bed. The night she died, sic photograph of me shaking hands with her. I had the picture mounted on the wall the picture fell off the wall. next to my bed. The night she died, the When I picked it up, I thought: picture fell off the wall. When I picked it up, I thought: “Now, what’s gone on here?” “Now, what’s gone on here?” There was no reason why it had come off but it was announced on the news the There was no reason why it next day that she had died. You ask your- self: “What goes on in this world?” The had come off but it was work she did helping people was amazing. announced on the news the What was the worst moment in your career? next day that she had died. When I was playing for Nottinghamshire we lost the county You ask yourself: “What goes championship off the last ball of the sea- on in this world?” The work son in 1984. The ball was going for a six when Mike Bore got caught on the bound- she did helping people was ary, and a six would have won the title. There was also the time when South amazing. Africa’s tour of Australia in 1972 was called off. The reality struck that we were Clive Rice leads his team back to international cricket in Calcutta. not going and may never be back in Test cricket, and we never were during my bowled him a bouncer which smashed tough captains to play against. It was when a guy in the crowd had a We are starting to manufacture them career. I never bowled a ball in Test crick- into his glove. The bat went to mid wicket, What was the best advice you were go at me in Cape Town. I was about to there now. The technology is based on et. When we got back into international a glove to cover, another glove to extra given? run in to bowl and he shouted to me: reflectors used in motor cars rather than cricket I had done all the preparation for cover and Joel broke a finger. I thought I remember Joe Hardstaff at “Ricey, you’ve got so many wrinkles on a dog’s dish. I am also involved in a fax- what we would do in the World Cup in Kerry Packer was going to be waiting at Nottinghamshire speaking to me about your head, do you screw your cap on?” to-email package. My wife Susan runs a 1992 but was told I wasn’t going. That was the top of the stairs ready to give me a playing spin bowlers in one-day cricket. Where are you now? sport and bush safaris tour company and a real kick in the teeth. ticket straight back to South Africa. Well, He suggested standing outside the leg I am 60 years old and live in part of that includes a corporate golf Who was the best opponent you he was there and he congratulated every- stump and they would have to bowl at Johannesburg, where I am involved with league in which I have a team. I live next faced? one in the world side and said it was the you. When I applied it, my goodness, it street lighting. We have patented what to the Royal Johannesburg Golf Club and Playing against the West Indian pace best game of cricket we had had in WSC. worked. Joe never played one-day cricket are probably the most efficient street play off a handicap of six for my sins. attack of Andy Roberts, Michael Holding, That is how hard the cricket was. To have and yet from the side he gave me the best lights in the world with reflector technol- Wayne Daniel and Joel Garner was tough played in it and witnessed it was fantas- ever tip on how to play. ogy, using only 53 watts of electricity for Times Online Decade of change that put game to test by Mike Atherton of India’s new-found infatua- retiring early to take up IPL Zimbabwe that they were this remarkable cricketer. balance between bat and ball tion with Twenty20 cricket, offers and the world game mourning, at some personal Warne was on 699 Test wickets shifted firmly in favour of the or England, the “noughties” and the can-do attitudes of wondering how to cope with risk, too. The decline of crick- as Boxing Day arrived, willow was never better illus- began and ended in South Lalit Modi, the vice-president this challenge to the estab- et in Zimbabwe has been one although on a green, damp trated than in the remarkable FAfrica, although not one of the Board of Control for lished order of things. of the calamities of the pitch any seam attack worth one-day international at the member of the XI that started Cricket in India, and IMG, the 4 Andy Flower and Henry decade; the failure of the ICC its salt would have been Wanderers, where South the decade survived it in sports management company. Olonga, 2003 World Cup, to act over the financial irreg- embarrassed to have a leg Africa successfully chased the England colours. As for the The opening night, when the South Africa ularities of the Zimbabwe spinner bowl at all. Cue 434 posted by Australia. A England team, so for world Royal Challengers faced the That sport and politics don’t mix Cricket Union, its greatest fail- Warne, who bamboozled one good pitch, altitude, better- cricket: it was a period in Kolkata Knight Riders, was a is one of life’s great fallacies, ure. through Andrew Strauss’s than-ever bats, short bound- which the game changed at a heady mix of cricket, as two humble cricketers 5 Shane Warne’s 700th Test defences in his fourth over aries and the horizons of what more rapid rate and more fun- Bollywood and money. It was a showed when they competed wicket, MCG, December and finished with five for 39 in was regarded as possible damentally than, probably, resounding success. Cricket, in the 2003 World Cup wearing 2006 17 valedictory overs. It was an stretched like never before, any decade since the 1970s, suddenly, had changed, with black armbands. It doesn’t Shane Warne announced his act of will as much as any- reducing bowlers to mere when the Packer revolution players being bought and sold take much for players to dis- retirement on the eve of the thing else, a final moment of punchbags for pugilistic bats- altered the face of profession- according to their market play their grief these days — Boxing Day Test in triumph in front of his home men. The strokeplay was al cricket for good. Here are value, and owned now, not by soon enough, the death of a Melbourne, with the Ashes crowd. Warne was the crick- remarkable, but the game ten of the decade’s most sig- national governing bodies, but captain’s cat will be so com- once again in Australia’s safe eter of the decade; of the age, lacked the ingredients of a nificant moments. by private investors. The memorated — but Flower and keeping. The script had been no less. classic. Cricket’s greatness is 1 England v South Africa, effects are still being played Olonga had due cause.
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