John Richard Reid

John Reid
Personal information
Full name John Richard Reid
Born (1928-06-03) 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
Test debut (cap 49) 23 July 1949 v England
Last Test 8 July 1965 v England
Career statistics
Competition Test First-class
Matches 58 246
Runs scored 3,428 16,128
Batting average 33.28 41.35
100s/50s 6/22 39/83
Top score 142 296
Balls bowled 7,725 29,270
Wickets 85 466
Bowling average 33.35 22.60
5 wickets in innings 1 15
10 wickets in match 0 1
Best bowling 6/60 7/20
Catches/stumpings 43/1 240/7
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 Tests. 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]

Test centuries

John R. Reid's Test Centuries[9]
#RunsMatchAgainstCity/CountryVenueYearResult
113511 South AfricaSouth Africa Cape Town, South AfricaNewlands1954Drawn
2119*21 IndiaIndia Delhi, IndiaFeroz Shah Kotla1955Drawn
312022 IndiaIndia Calcutta, IndiaEden Gardens1955Drawn
414238 South AfricaSouth Africa Johannesburg, South AfricaWanderers1962Lost
510042 EnglandNew Zealand Christchurch, New ZealandLancaster Park1963Lost
612855 PakistanPakistan Karachi, PakistanNational Stadium1965Lost
The John R. Reid Gate at the Basin Reserve, Wellington.
An innings-by-innings breakdown of Reid's Test match batting career, showing runs scored (red bars) and the average of the last ten innings (blue line).

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.[10] He was made a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, also for services to cricket, in the 2014 New Year Honours.[11]

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.[12]

See also

References

  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.
  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.
  8. ↑ "Former New Zealand batsman Trevor Barber dies at 90". ESPNCricinfo. 10 August 2015. Retrieved 10 August 2015.
  9. ↑ Statsguru: John Reid, Cricinfo, 24 February 2015.
  10. ↑ "No. 42685". The London Gazette (Supplement). 2 June 1962. p. 4348.
  11. ↑ "New Year honours list 2014". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 31 December 2013. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
  12. ↑ John Reid DVD
  • 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
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