The 61-year-old former accountant from Norfolk in England retired young and has been pursuing his passion ever since.
He has combined a fondness of travel with his penchant for test cricket and is in New Zealand to watch his ''second-favourite team'' play South Africa.
With the third and final test getting under way in Hamilton on Saturday, McClure seized the opportunity to watch some first-class cricket and travelled to Dunedin for the Plunket Shield match between Otago and Auckland at the University Oval.
''I just really enjoy watching cricket and I particularly like watching cricket in New Zealand,'' McClure said.
He was easy to spot yesterday. You can usually count the crowd for a Plunket Shield match with both hands - one if it is cold.
The fact so few people watch first-class cricket in New Zealand was astonishing to McClure.
''I'm very, very surprised that there aren't more people who come along.
''The trouble is, of course, given there are so few people watching, the cricket authorities don't put any money into letting people know the games are on. It's a Catch 22, really.''
McClure has watched 74 tests outside England since he got started on his retirement plan. He is still very much the accountant and has calculated he has seen more than 25,000 overs of test cricket.
He has also seen 165 test centuries scored and about 81,000 runs.
Interestingly, McClure is the second cricket tragic from Norfolk this month to have made the trip to Dunedin to indulge their passion and then appear in the Otago Daily Times.
English cricket fan Carrie Nichols saw Dunedin's University Oval while watching a test on television and instantly knew she wanted to travel here. She ticked it off her bucket list earlier this month when she arrived in the city for the first test between New Zealand and South Africa.
