| Buddy Reid | |
| Country: | Sri Lanka |
| Fullname: | Barclay George Reid |
| Nickname: | Buddy |
| Birth Date: | 4 November 1940 |
| Birth Place: | Ceylon |
| Batting: | Right-handed |
| Bowling: | Right-arm leg-spin |
| Columns: | 1 |
| Column1: | First-class |
| Matches1: | 10 |
| Runs1: | 331 |
| Bat Avg1: | 18.38 |
| 100S/50S1: | 0/1 |
| Top Score1: | 50 not out |
| Deliveries1: | 347 |
| Wickets1: | 7 |
| Bowl Avg1: | 25.42 |
| Fivefor1: | 0 |
| Tenfor1: | 0 |
| Best Bowling1: | 4/19 |
| Catches/Stumpings1: | 5/0 |
| Date: | 17 January |
| Year: | 2015 |
| Source: | https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/26/26399/26399.html Cricket Archive |
Barclay George "Buddy" Reid (born 4 November 1940) is a former cricketer who played first-class cricket for Ceylon in the 1960s.
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]
He and his wife, daughter and son moved to Australia, where he continued to practise medicine.
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.[11]