Clive Thornton Radley (born 13 May 1944) is an English former

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er, who played eight

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and four

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s for

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. He was selected as one of the five

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in 1979.

County career

Radley represented

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in 8

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matches in 1961 and

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in 62 2nd XI matches (1962–90) and 520 First-class matches for the 1st XI (1964–87), making 46 hundreds, with a best of 200. He also played for

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in 1984/85. Radley was part of a successful Middlesex side which won the

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outright in

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and

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, and also shared it with

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. He also enjoyed success in one-day tournaments, especially in one-day finals played on his county home ground at Lord’s. He top-scored for his county in their victories in the final of the

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, the

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, the

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, and the

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, winning the

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award in all of these except the latter. He was also part of the Middlesex side which won the

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Test career

Radley's batting average in Tests (48.10) was substantially higher than he achieved in all

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(35.44), despite his not making his Test debut until the comparatively advanced age of thirty-three. Also an acclaimed fieldsman, after years of scurrying accumulation for Middlesex,

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's accession to the England

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did his international cause no harm. His brief Test career, however, was ended prematurely by a bad blow to the head in the first match on the 1978/79 tour of

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. He made two test centuries, his highest score being an innings of 158 against

which lasted nearly 11 hours, made in

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’s last test as England captain.

One-day international Career

Radley also ended his career with an unusually high average in

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of 83.33, assisted by the fact that he is one of the few international cricketers to make a century in his last One Day International, an unbeaten 117 against

in 1978. He was also named both

, and

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, in this last appearance. All of his four internationals, like all of his test matches, were played in 1978.

Post-retirement

On his retirement as a player, he served as the 2nd XI coach of Middlesex (1988–90) until his appointment as

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(MCC) head

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in 1991 (in succession to Don Wilson) where he remained until his retirement in 2009. He was appointed

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(MBE) in the

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for services to cricket.Radley and Heyhoe-Flint honoured

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, Retrieved on 29 December 2007 He was elected to serve for a two-year term as the 22nd President of

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at its 149th Annual General Meeting at Lord's in April 2013 succeeding Geoff Norris.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Radley, Clive 1944 births Living people Auckland cricketers Cricketers from Hertfordshire D. B. Close's XI cricketers D. H. Robins' XI cricketers England One Day International cricketers England Test cricketers English cricketers International Cavaliers cricketers Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers Members of the Order of the British Empire Middlesex cricketers Norfolk cricketers People educated at Norwich School People from Hertford Presidents of Middlesex County Cricket Club T. N. Pearce's XI cricketers Wisden Cricketers of the Year