NZ cricket 2020

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Quality player

[Chris B.]

@Bovidae said in NZ cricket 2020:

2020 claims the other John Reid too. RIP.

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/sport/2020/12/cricket-former-new-zealand-batsman-john-f-reid-dies-aged-64.html

Shit - sad news.

That's waaay too soon for John Reid the Younger.

Excellent player of spin and good enough to make a hundred against Australia in Brisbane!

Could have played many more tests for NZ if he'd wanted to.

[Siam]

I always put John Drake ( ex ab prop) and JF Reid in a category. Way unsung but incredibly useful, successful and valued by team-mates and those in the know. Retired too early as well

And now I add died too young to the category. Our cricket coming of age in 84/85 etc was in large part due to patient well constructed centuries from John Reid at first drop.

Best NZ player of spin ever