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Buddy Reid
Personal information
Full name
Barclay George Reid
Born (1940-11-04) 4 November 1940 (age 84)
Ceylon
NicknameBuddy
BattingRight-handed
BowlingRight-arm leg-spin
Career statistics
Competition First-class
Matches 10
Runs scored 331
Batting average 18.38
100s/50s 0/1
Top score 50 not out
Balls bowled 347
Wickets 7
Bowling average 25.42
5 wickets in innings 0
10 wickets in match 0
Best bowling 4/19
Catches/stumpings 5/0
Source: Cricket Archive, 17 January 2015

Barclay George "Buddy" Reid (born 4 November 1940) is a former cricketer who played first-class cricket for Ceylon in the 1960s. He is also an international table tennis player and a medical doctor. He migrated to Australia in the 1970s.

Life in Ceylon

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Buddy Reid attended St. Thomas' College, Mount Lavinia, and the University of Colombo, where he studied medicine. He made his first-class debut for the Ceylon Board President's XI in a Gopalan Trophy match against Madras in March 1964, batting at number three and scoring 46 (the innings top score) and 22 in a six-wicket victory.[1]

He played in most of Ceylon's matches for the next six years, usually opening the batting and occasionally bowling leg-breaks. He was selected to tour England with the Ceylon team in 1968, but the tour was cancelled just before it was due to begin.[2]

He captained Ceylon against MCC in 1968–69, making his highest score, 50 not out, in the second innings.[3] The previous season he had taken his best bowling figures, 4 for 19, for Ceylon Transport Board in the Moin-ud-Dowlah Gold Cup Tournament.[4]

Life in Australia

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Reid and his wife Peace and their daughter and son moved to Australia in the 1970s, where he continued to practise medicine.[5]

Reid also represented Ceylon and Australia at table tennis.[5] He was Ceylon's national men's singles champion in 1959, 1960 and 1962, and doubles champion six times.[6] In 2016 he became the World Over-75 Table Tennis Champion, winning the singles title in Alicante, Spain.[7] He added the World Over-75 doubles title in Las Vegas in 2018, when he teamed with Australian team-mate Igor Klaf.[8]

In September 2018, Reid was one of 49 former Sri Lankan cricketers felicitated by Sri Lanka Cricket, to honour them for their services before Sri Lanka became a full member of the International Cricket Council (ICC).[9][10]

Since at least 2009, Reid has been a tutor of medical students in the Monash University Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences.[5]

References

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  1. ^ "Ceylon Board President's XI v Madras 1963-64". CricketArchive. Retrieved 26 February 2015.
  2. ^ S. S. Perera, The Janashakthi Book of Sri Lanka Cricket (1832–1996), Janashakthi Insurance, Colombo, 1999, pp. 320–26.
  3. ^ "Ceylon v MCC 1968-69". CricketArchive. Retrieved 26 February 2015.
  4. ^ "Dungarpur XI v Ceylon Transport Board 1967-68". CricketArchive. Retrieved 26 February 2015.
  5. ^ a b c "Dr. Buddy G. Reid – A phenomenal sportsman". Sunday Observer (Sri Lanka). Archived from the original on 26 February 2015. Retrieved 26 February 2015.
  6. ^ Thawfeeq, Sa’adi (4 July 2010). "Cricket, the Reid way". The Nation. Retrieved 20 February 2017.
  7. ^ "Dr Buddy Reid crowns himself World TT (over 75) champ". Daily News. 13 June 2016. Retrieved 27 February 2019.
  8. ^ "World TT title for Dr Buddy Reid". Daily News. 10 July 2018. Retrieved 27 February 2019.
  9. ^ "Sri Lanka Cricket to felicitate 49 past cricketers". Sri Lanka Cricket. Archived from the original on 6 September 2018. Retrieved 5 September 2018.
  10. ^ "SLC launched the program to felicitate ex-cricketers". Sri Lanka Cricket. Archived from the original on 6 September 2018. Retrieved 5 September 2018.
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