apartheid, Rice joined the controversial World Series Cricket setup. During the 1980s, a number of rebel cricket teams visited South Africa to play unofficial "Test" matches. Rice captained the home side for the majority of these fixtures. Rice was able to make his debut in official international cricket in 1991, when, aged 42, he played in—and captained—South Africa's first One Day International, in a match against India at Eden Gardens, Calcutta. Rice finished with averages of 13 with the bat and 57 with the ball from his three One Day International matches. Later career After retirement Rice worked as coach for Nottinghamshire and encouraged Kevin Pietersen to leave South Africa to qualify for England. Opinions about match fixing In September 2010, Rice claimed in an interview to Fox News that betting syndicates were involved in the deaths of Pakistan coach Bob Woolmer and former South African captain Hansie Cronje. Fox Sports quoted Rice as saying: "These mafia betting syndicates do not stop at anything and they do not care who gets in their way." Former Pakistan coach Geoff Lawson had earlier told Fox Sports that match-fixing "might not be about money, it might be about extortion, and all the things that go on". Illness and death Rice was diagnosed with a brain tumour in September 1998 and received treatment in Hanover, Germany. In February 2015, Rice collapsed at his house in Johannesburg and scans at a local hospital found that, as his tumour was located deep down, it could not be removed by a neurosurgeon by invasive surgery. Rice then went to Health Care Global in Bangalore, India and received robotic radiation treatment to have the tumour removed. The surgery was successful and Rice returned home in March 2015. On the morning of 28 July 2015, Rice died from sepsis in the Morningside hospital in Johannesburg. References Sources Sproat, I. (1988) The Cricketers' Who's Who 1988, Willow Books: London. . External links Sunday Times article 3 January 2010 1949 births 2015 deaths South African cricketers South Africa One Day International cricketers South African cricket captains KwaZulu-Natal cricketers Nottinghamshire cricketers Nottinghamshire cricket captains Scotland cricketers Gauteng cricketers World Series Cricket players Wisden Cricketers of the Year South African cricket coaches Cricketers from Johannesburg White South African people South African people of British descent South African people of Scottish descent Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers Alumni of St John's College (Johannesburg) Deaths from