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# John Reid Gone
- URL: https://goodoil.news/john-reid-gone/
- Published: 2020-10-15T17:30:44.000Z
- Updated: 2020-10-15T00:47:57.000Z
- Author: Bob Jones
- Tags: Nostalgia Lane, NZ, Sport, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 02:38

**Sir Bob Jones**  
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One of our true cricket greats, all-rounder **John Reid,** has died at 92, thus for once the old cliché that he had good innings is true, both literally and chronologically.

My god, he was special, captaining New Zealand through a difficult time in our cricket history.

John was an affable fellow with a sunny outlook on life and always good company.

I haven’t seen him for half a dozen years now, the last time being when a commemoration was payed to him, marked by a fitting large monument in the Hutt Rec.

He came down for that and stayed with me and we had a few laughs.

Memorable was driving over to Wainuiomata to look at his first home after he’d married, Wainui being a popular location for young professional class newly weds back in the 1950-60 era.

We drove to the street and he became annoyed, insisting his house had been removed. It hadn’t, rather with the passing of over half a century both it and its neighbours now sat amidst lush vegetation plus of course with extensions, decks and such-like subsequently added.

John would make everyone’s perfect all-time NZ team selection, the only one I’d suggest from his era.