John Richard Reid

John Reid
CNZM OBE
Personal information
Full name	John Richard Reid
Born	3 June 1928
Nickname	Bogo
Batting	Right-handed
Bowling	Right-arm off-break; Right-arm fast-medium
Relations	Richard Reid (son)
International information
National side	New Zealand (1949–1965);
Test debut (cap 49)	23 July 1949 v England
Last Test	8 July 1965 v England
Career statistics
	Source: Cricinfo, 1 April 2017

John Richard Reid CNZM OBE (born 3 June 1928) is a former New Zealand cricketer who captained New Zealand in 34 Test matches. He was the country's first cricketing leader to achieve victory, both at home against the West Indies in 1956 and the first away win, against South Africa in 1962.

Biography

Reid was born in Auckland in 1928. Reid was also a strong and aggressive bowler who, in his early days, was an authentic quick. He later turned to off-cutters and spin from a short run-up with a trademark side-step. Until a swollen knee slowed down his movements and checked his agility, he was a strong and multi-talented fieldsman at slip and in the covers. On the 1949 tour of England he was the reserve wicketkeeper, keeping wicket in several matches including the final Test.[1] "The figures mislead," confirmed John Mehaffey, whose favourite Reid was. "Nobody who saw him at the crease would dispute his own assessment that he could have increased his batting average by half again if he had played in the 1980s side with Richard Hadlee and Martin Crowe."[2]

Reid never featured in an England-beating New Zealand Test side, but his men secured a narrow first-innings lead against Dexter's eleven in the Third Test in Christchurch. Unable to take advantage, they collapsed at the hands of Fred Trueman and Fred Titmus for 159 in their second innings, of which Reid hit exactly 100 before stumbling from the field in pallid enervation. The second-highest score was 22. This remains the lowest all-out Test match total to include a century.[3]

In 1969, Reid played in what is thought to be the first cricket match at the South Pole, with the striped barber's-type pole with a silver reflecting glass ball on top representing the actual Pole acting as the wicket.[4] The match ended when Reid hit a six and the ball was unable to be found in the snow of the outfield.[5] It has been noted that every shot he played, no matter where he hit it, travelled north.[6] His son Richard played nine one-day internationals for New Zealand. On the death of Trevor Barber on 7 August 2015 Reid became the oldest surviving New Zealand Test cricketer.[7][8]

Honours

In the 1962 Queen's Birthday Honours, Reid was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, for services to sport, especially cricket.[9] He was made a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, also for services to cricket, in the 2014 New Year Honours.[10]

Publications

Reid wrote two books, Sword of Willow (1962) and A Million Miles of Cricket (1966). Joseph Romanos wrote the biography John Reid: A Cricketing Life in 2000. John Reid is a 55-minute DVD made by the Vid Pro Quo company in 2003 of interviews with Reid by Grahame Thorne and footage of matches he played in.[11]

gollark: Why get your hair cut when you could *not* get your haircut?

gollark: Existential risks are very scary that way. Especially universal ones.

gollark: I figure if you have the super-advanced technology which is necessary to make this somewhat work, you might as well try and have an actual nice modern-ish society based on that.

gollark: That sounds problematic if you run into bugs or something.

gollark: I guess you could maybe do that if you had very advanced technology to do that with in the first place? It would probably be hard if it broke and you had to edit it in some way, though.

References

Wisden 1950, p. 209.
Mehaffey, John (30 May 2008). "John Reid, Hit machine – A dashing, attacking batsman, he kept New Zealand cricket shining through its dark days". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 21 December 2012.
Tests – Lowest Innings Totals to Include a Century, CricketArchive. Retrieved 19 October 2007.
Martin-Jenkins, pp. 39–40.
Martin-Jenkins, p. 39.
Martin-Jenkins, p. 40.
"List of oldest living Test players". Stats.espncricinfo.com. Retrieved 10 August 2015.
"Former New Zealand batsman Trevor Barber dies at 90". ESPNCricinfo. 10 August 2015. Retrieved 10 August 2015.
"No. 42685". The London Gazette (3rd supplement). 2 June 1962. p. 4348.
"New Year honours list 2014". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 31 December 2013. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
John Reid DVD

External links

Media related to John Richard Reid at Wikimedia Commons
Martin-Jenkins, C. (1983) The Cricketer Book of Cricket Disasters and Bizarre Records, Century Publishing: London. ISBN 07126 0191 0.
John Richard Reid at ESPNcricinfo
"The Final Test" – a 22-minute film of John Reid's last series in 1965 on YouTube

Sporting positions
Preceded by Harry Cave	New Zealand national cricket captain 1955/6-1965	Succeeded by Murray Chapple

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.

[1] Wisden 1950, p. 209.

[2] Mehaffey, John (30 May 2008). "John Reid, Hit machine – A dashing, attacking batsman, he kept New Zealand cricket shining through its dark days". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 21 December 2012.

[century-3] Tests – Lowest Innings Totals to Include a Century, CricketArchive. Retrieved 19 October 2007.

[4] Martin-Jenkins, pp. 39–40.

[5] Martin-Jenkins, p. 39.

[6] Martin-Jenkins, p. 40.

[7] "List of oldest living Test players". Stats.espncricinfo.com. Retrieved 10 August 2015.

[Barber-8] "Former New Zealand batsman Trevor Barber dies at 90". ESPNCricinfo. 10 August 2015. Retrieved 10 August 2015.

[9] "No. 42685". The London Gazette (3rd supplement). 2 June 1962. p. 4348.

[10] "New Year honours list 2014". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 31 December 2013. Retrieved 12 January 2018.

[11] John Reid DVD