A minute’s applause in memory of former Nottinghamshire Captain and Cricket Manager Clive Rice will take place ahead of the Investec Ashes Test at Trent Bridge on Thursday.
Clive sadly passed away aged 66 last week and tributes have been pouring in from around the cricketing world.
The Notts Outlaws team wore black armbands for their recent Royal London One-Day Cup fixture against Sussex Sharks, a tribute also paid by Stuart Broad in the Second Ashes Test at Edgbaston.
The funeral is being held in Clive’s home country of South Africa tomorrow.
“In terms of where this club was when he first came here, there hasn’t been a more inspirational player for this club in the last however many years you want to go back,” said Nottinghamshire Director of Cricket Mick Newell.
“The Club should be enormously grateful to him for what he did and he left a legacy of trophies behind him which is fantastic.
“He had that inspirational leadership. He would lead the team from the front with his performances, but he also made you believe that you were a better player than you probably were.
“He wouldn’t ask you to do things he didn’t think you were capable of, and the fact he was asking you - and you knew what a fantastic cricketer he was - it gave you that self belief to be part of a successful and winning team.”
“He was a very courageous man; one of the toughest men I have ever met,” added former Nottinghamshire batsman Darren Bicknell.
“I’m in awe of the guy really. It’s come as quite a shock and I’m incredibly sad for him, for his wife and for his family.”