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Full name | Douglas James Reid | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Christchurch, New Zealand | 17 October 1928||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Left-arm medium-pace | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1953-54 to 1956-57 | Canterbury | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source:Cricinfo,6 February 2018 |
Douglas James Reid (born 17 October 1928) is a former cricketer who played seven matches of first-class cricket for Canterbury in New Zealand from 1953 to 1957.
Reid was born in Christchurch and educated at Christchurch Boys' High School. He became a quantity surveyor. [1]
A left-arm opening bowler,Reid's best first-class figures were 4 for 58 against Otago in the 1953–54 Plunket Shield. [2]
Reid and his wife Toni Reid (the daughter of the All Black Read Masters) both represented Canterbury in cricket in the 1950s. [3] They married in Merivale,Christchurch,in February 1954. [4] On the death of Bill Crump on 10 July 2022,Reid became the oldest living New Zealand first-class cricketer. [5] [6]