drop out of the squad. Returning from suspension, Clarke found himself out of favour with the selectors and unable to break back into an already extremely strong West Indian bowling line-up boasting such talents as Joel Garner, Michael Holding, Malcolm Marshall and Colin Croft. He played only one more Test, against Australia at the Sydney Cricket Ground in January 1982. Rebel tour to South Africa With very limited international opportunities for him in the West Indies, Clarke decided to accept a lucrative offer to tour the apartheid era South Africa in 1983 and 1984 with an unofficial rebel West Indian side led by Lawrence Rowe. As a result, Clarke, together with the other members of the touring party, was banned by the West Indies Cricket Board from playing in all cricket under its jurisdiction. Clarke was a stand out contributor for the West Indian side in South Africa, taking 37 wickets in the unofficial Test series at 16.16 and 20 wickets at 18.45 in the accompanying limited overs series. Sufficiently impressed, South African provincial side Transvaal recruited Clarke and in 1984/85, he took a Currie Cup record 58 wickets at 12.72. He continued to play in South Africa until 1989, representing, at different times, Transvaal, Northern Transvaal and Orange Free State. In all, Clarke took 193 first-class wickets in South Africa at 17.55 and was named a South African Cricket Annual Cricketer of the Year in 1984 and 1985. English County cricket Clarke played with great distinction for English county side Surrey for a decade starting in 1979, becoming one of the leading wicket takers in the County Championship. Clarke received his county cap in 1980 and his benefit year in 1987. In 1988 he took 63 wickets for Surrey at 14.50 while he also displayed his powerful and adventurous batting prowess, scoring a century (out of an 8th-wicket partnership of 151 with Jack Richards) from only 61 balls in 1981 (and winning the Walter Lawrence Trophy in the process). In 1982 he helped Surrey to win the NatWest Trophy, taking 4/10 in 7 overs and winning the man of the match award in the semi final against County Champions elect Middlesex, taking all of the first four wickets to fall. He also took 2/17 in 11.2 almost equally miserly overs in the final against Warwickshire. Clarke retired from first-class cricket in 1990 with 942 wickets at 19.52, including three