Richard Bruce Reid (born 3 December 1958) is a former New Zealand international

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er, who played nine

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s between 1988 and 1991. His father, John Reid, played

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for New Zealand from 1949 to 1965.

Life and career

Reid was born in

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. He attended

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, where he captained the first XI. He had two moderately successful seasons with the

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before going to

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, where his parents were living.

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, ''Great New Zealand Cricket Families'', Random House, Auckland, 1992, pp. 130–34. Reid taught physical education and mathematics at St John's College in Johannesburg and played one

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match for Transvaal B. Later he worked for

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in South Africa. In the mid-1980s, after visiting the New Zealand cricketers who were touring Zimbabwe in October 1984, he decided to return to New Zealand and resume his cricket career. Reid settled in

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in 1985 and played with some success for the

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. He acted as liaison officer with the touring Australian team in 1986. He married Debbie Kittow in April 1989. In 1990 Reid returned to Wellington to work as a sales representative for Nike New Zealand. Opening the batting in one-day matches for Wellington, he was the highest scorer in the 1990–91 Shell Cup competition, with 348 runs at an average of 69.60 and a scoring rate of 109.77 runs per 100 balls faced. He was included in the New Zealand team for the

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in Australia that season, and was New Zealand's top-scorer in the second final with 64. A few days later he was the top-scorer on either side with 47 from 44 balls when Wellington won the final of the Shell Cup. Reid's form fell away after that season and he played no more international cricket. His last season of domestic cricket was 1991–92. Reid worked as

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of Nike New Zealand until 2001, when he began a career in cricket and rugby administration.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Reid, Richard 1958 births Living people New Zealand One Day International cricketers New Zealand cricketers Auckland cricketers Gauteng cricketers Wellington cricketers Cricketers from Lower Hutt People educated at Scots College, Wellington New Zealand cricket administrators