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Clive Rice genocide anniversary: Cricketers who mislaid their conflict with cancer
- Updated: July 28, 2016
It’s initial genocide anniversary of South Africa’s initial captain of a post-isolation epoch Clive Rice. The former Proteas skipper and all-rounder upheld divided on a morning of Jul 28, 2015 after battling a Big C.
Let’s demeanour during some of a famous cricketers who have fought tough though mislaid their conflict with cancer.
CLIVE RICE
Former South African cricket captain Clive Rice. Pic: mid-day archive
Clive Rice, South Africa’s initial cricket captain in a post-apartheid era, upheld divided after losing his conflict with septicaemia — a potentially life melancholy infection in that vast amounts of germ are benefaction in a blood.
The former cricketer was pang from a mind tumour. Rice was a initial post-apartheid captain of South Africa and one of a stars of Nottinghamshire County side in a 1970s and 1980s.
Rice, who had been pang from a mind tumour, played most of his cricket during South Africa’s 20-year isolation
from a general game. He was comparison for a 1971-72 debate of Australia, which was cancelled since of antithesis to a South African government’s process of apartheid.
When South Africa returned to a general overlay in November 1991, Rice was allocated captain of a group which played 3 one-day internationals (ODIs) in India.
The British daily ‘The Telegraph’ in a obit called him ‘Best cricketer who never played a Test’. The obit goes on to discuss that Rice could have been bracketed with a 4 good all-rounders of a 1980s – Ian Botham, Richard Hadlee, Imran Khan and Kapil Dev – if politics had allowed.
FRED TRUEMAN
Fred Trueman
Fred Trueman died on July 1, 2006, aged 75 after a conflict with lung cancer.
The Yorkshire and England quick bowler, who has died of lung cancer aged 75, was arguably one of a biggest quick bowlers to have played a diversion and certainly a many charming cricketer to come out of England.
He was diagnosed with lung cancer.
He played his initial Test compare during a age of 21 and determined him as a inhabitant sporting favourite in a 1950s and ’60s. Over 13 years he played usually 67 times for England and took some-more Test wickets, 307, and during a extremely reduce average, 21.57, than any English bowler compartment then. Nicknamed “Fiery Fred”, his excellent hour came during The Oval in 1964 when he became a initial male to take 300 Test wickets.
SIR RICHIE BENAUD
Australia’s Richie Benaud in 1960s. PIC/GETTY IMAGES
Legendary cricket commentator and good leg-spinner Richie Benaud died in a Sydney hospice during a age of 84 on April 10, 2015.
Benaud was an all-time good all-rounder cricketer, a cunning leg-spinner who prisoner 248 wickets in 63 Tests, an assertive lower-order batsman who strike one of a fastest Test centuries, a shining gully fielder with extraordinary reflexes and a throng puller wherever he played.
He was a initial cricketer to grasp a Test double of 2000 runs and 200 wickets and, as an all-rounder, ranks as one of a greatest.
MARTIN CROWE
New Zealand’s Martin Crowe during his 115-run strike in a third Test opposite England during Old Trafford in 1994. Pic/Getty Images
Former New Zealand cricket captain Martin Crowe has died of lymphoma aged 53 on Mar 3, 2016.
Crowe was initial diagnosed with assertive follicular lymphoma in 2012 and after chemotherapy, he was suspicion to be in remission. But Crowe announced in Sep 2014 that a cancer, that he called “my crony and tough taskmaster,” had returned.
Crowe played 77 tests and 143 one-day internationals for New Zealand in a 13-year career. He scored 5,444 exam runs during an normal of 45.36 with 17 centuries.
Crowe has a second top particular measure in Tests by a New Zealand batsman with 299, Brendon McCullum is first. During a 1992 World Cup, Crowe was a heading run scorer as good as Player-Of-The-Series. Crowe was named Wisden Cricketer of a Year in 1985.
MALCOLM MARSHALL
Malcolm Marshall done a 1983 Kanpur Test noted for West Indies
Malcolm Marshall died from colon cancer in Barbados on Nov 4, 1999, aged 41.
Marshall was one of a biggest West Indies quick bowler of a 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. He along with his West Indian contemporaries — Joel Garner, Curtly Ambrose, Colin Croft, formed a challenging party of quick bowlers. He took 376 Test wickets during a conspicuous normal of 20.94, a lowest bowling normal of any bowler to take some-more than 200 Test wickets.
Marshall played for a West Indies from 1976 to 1991 and hold a record as a heading wicket taker until Courtney Walsh upheld a symbol in Nov 1998.
His achieved his bowling success notwithstanding being, by a standards of other quick bowlers, a brief male – he stood during 5 feet 11 inches.
He was nicknamed “Whispering Death” by umpires due to his still proceed to a bowling crease.
MIKE DENNESS
Mike Denniss
Mike Denness died of cancer on Apr 19, 2013.
He was a usually Scotsman ever to captain England, heading a group in 19 of his 28 Tests between 1969 and 1975. He also played 12 one-day internationals and went onto turn an ICC compare referee.
During his time as an ICC compare arbitrate his argumentative preference to permit 6 Indian players in Port Elizabeth during a 2001-2002 debate stirred a Indian and South African play to anathema Denness from officiating in a subsequent match. The ICC responded by withdrawing Test standing from a game.
His power has England captain was injured by a stretched attribute with Geoff Boycott, afterwards one of a team’s star performers.
During a 1974-75 debate of Australia, Denness forsaken himself for a fourth Test after creation only 65 runs in his initial 6 innings. But he returned to strike 188 in a Melbourne Test which, during a time, was a top measure by an England captain in Australia.
TONY GREIG
Tony Greig
Former England captain and commentator Tony Greig, who was pang from lung cancer, died during a age of 66 on December 29, 2012.
Greig, a right-handed middle-order batsman and medium-fast seamer, upheld divided during his home in Sydney after pang a heart attack.
South African-born Greig played 58 Tests for England between 1972 and 1977, scoring 3,599 runs with 8 centuries during 40.43 and prisoner 141 wickets during 32.20. He captained England in 14 Tests. He also played 22 one-day internationals for England.
Greig was instrumental in a arrangement of late Australian media aristocrat Kerry Packer’s breakaway World Series Cricket competition staged from 1977-79 that sent shockwaves by a sport.
The best opening of Greig’s captaincy career came in 1976-77, when England toured India for a five-Test series.
The group had not won there for 15 years though went on to measure one of their many convincing triumphs when they clinched a initial 3 Tests by outrageous margins.
Greig incited into a successful commentator following a finish of his personification career in 1977 and was blunt with his views. He was one of a many sour critics of BCCI’s antithesis to a Decision Review System.
DAVID SHEPHERD
David Shepherd
David Shepherd died on October 27, 2009, after a prolonged conflict with cancer during a age of 68.
He was a warm male though was hard-hitting when it came to batting for Gloucester. Once, he strike a round so tough it knocked out a witness reading a journal in a crowd.
He scored a hundred on his county debut.
Shepherd was to be given special management by a ICC to referee in an England Test during Lord’s as his final match, though he incited down a event in sequence to say a neutral umpiring policy.
There is a statue dedicated to him nearby Lord’s Cricket Ground in London.