Photo / GettyJohn R Reid - New Zealand cricketing great and the country's oldest surviving test player - has died in Auckland, aged 92. The first, against the West Indies at Auckland in 1956, broke a winless streak of 26 years for the New Zealand team. New Zealand cricket players Bert Sutcliffe (l) and John Reid (r) shake hands at the Plunket Shield Cricket competition, 1959. New Zealand Cricket chief executive David White hailed Reid as a colossus of New Zealand cricket in the post-war era, a player who led from the front as a batsman, bowler and captain, and carried the hopes of his team, more or less, on his own broad shoulders. "John R Reid was New Zealand cricket's Colin Meads," he said.

Source: New Zealand Herald October 14, 2020 08:57 UTC