Rice, who had been experiencing a mind tumor and lung disease, recognized in a late meeting that he was "in the flight lounge" yet was resolved to battle until the end.
He experienced automated radiation treatment for the mind tumor in Indian city Bangalore and said in Spring that he accepted the specialists there had spared him from death after he had been told he couldn't be dealt with in South Africa.
Yet, he was admitted to a South African healing center two days prior, torment from serious stomach agonies, and a Cricket South Africa representative affirmed that Rice kicked the bucket early Tuesday.
All through a 24-year top of the line vocation, Rice was prestigious as an extreme contender.
He was chosen for the Transvaal common group at 20 years old and his potential as a quick knocking down some pins every single rounder wa perceived two years after the fact when he was chosen for South Africa's planned 1971-72 voyage through Australia.
The visit did not happen on account of restriction toward the South African government's politically-sanctioned racial segregation strategy and it was an additional 20 years prior to the nation came back to official universal cricket - with Rice, then 42, captaining a group which played three one-day internationals (ODIs) in India.
Be that as it may, he was questionably excluded in South Africa's group for the 1992 World Container in Australia and New Zealand, with the selectors accepting more youthful, more athletic players were required for the huge fields of Australia.
Unexpectedly, it was a result of Rice's physicality and potential on those same huge fields that he had been picked as a promising adolescent for the scratched off 1971-72 visit.
Denied authority worldwide cricket, Rice's endeavors were constrained to South African local cricket, the English area title and Kerry Packer's Reality Arrangement Cricket - and 18 informal Tests for South Africa against "radical" visiting groups somewhere around 1982 and 1987.
Rice's vocation agreed with a period of prominent all-rounders, including Ian Botham, Imran Khan, Kapil Dev, Richard Hadlee and individual South African Mike Procter.
Previous South African chief Ali Bacher said: "I have most likely given the chance to play general Test cricket, Clive Rice would have been up there with the best all-rounders in Test history."
He was delegated commander of English province Nottinghamshire in 1978 yet was sacked in the wake of joining World Arrangement Cricket. Rice went to court to compel the region to hold him on the staff and a season and a half later he recovered the captaincy.
Shaping a match-winning organization with New Zealander Hadlee, he drove Nottinghamshire to triumph in the province title in 1981 - their first title in 52 years.
In naming Rice as one of their 1981 Cricketers of the Year, the Wisden Chronological registry compared the blend of Rice and Hadlee to the colossal Nottinghamshire pair of Harold Larwood and Bill Voce.
In 482 top of the line matches he scored 26,331 keeps running at a normal of 40.95 and took 930 wickets at a normal of 22.49. (AFP)