Full name Barclay Gordon Reid Role Cricket Player Name Buddy Reid | Bowling style Right-arm leg-spin Batting style Right-handed | |
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Born 4 November 1940 (age 84) ( 1940-11-04 ) Ceylon | ||
Barclay Gordon "Buddy" Reid (born 4 November 1940) is a former cricketer who played first-class cricket for Ceylon in the 1960s.
Buddy Reid attending S. 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.
He played in most of Ceylon's matches for the next six years, usually opening the batting and occasionally bowling leg-breaks. He captained Ceylon against MCC in 1968-69, making his highest score, 50 not out, in the second innings. 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.
He and his wife and daughter moved to Australia, where he continued to practise medicine.
He also represented Ceylon and Australia at table tennis. He was Ceylon's national men's singles champion in 1959, 1960 and 1962, and doubles champion six times.