Rodney Reid
New Zealand sportsman (1939–2022)
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Rodney Ernest Reid (30 July 1939 – 12 May 2022) was a New Zealand association football player who represented New Zealand at international level[1] and played first-class cricket for Wellington.[2]
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Reid in 1959 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Rodney Ernest Reid | ||
| Date of birth | 30 July 1939 | ||
| Place of birth | Apia, Territory of Western Samoa | ||
| Date of death | 12 May 2022 (aged 82) | ||
| Place of death | Blenheim, New Zealand | ||
| Position | Inside forward | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| Miramar Rangers | |||
| Seatoun | |||
| International career | |||
| 1958 | New Zealand | 2 | (0) |
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Born in Apia in Western Samoa, Reid played 13 first-class matches for Wellington from 1958–59 to 1960–61, taking 33 wickets at 29.72 with his right-arm medium pace and scoring 205 runs at 12.81.[2] He was considered one of the most promising new players of the 1958–59 Plunket Shield season, the Christchurch Press noting: "His medium-paced bowling was remarkably steady, he averaged 25 with the bat, and he finished the series with a hat-trick against Otago."[3] He took his best figures of 6 for 57 in the second innings when Wellington defeated Auckland by an innings in January 1960.[4]
Reid played two official A-international matches for the New Zealand national football team in 1958.[1] The first was a 2–3 loss against trans-Tasman neighbours Australia on 16 August 1958 and the second was a 5–1 win over New Caledonia on 7 September.[5]
