Jack Reece | |
Fullname: | Albert Jack Reece |
Birth Date: | 1927 |
Birth Place: | Christchurch, New Zealand |
Death Date: | 10 September |
Death Place: | Christchurch, New Zealand |
Date: | 20 October 2020 |
Source: | http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/38295.html Cricinfo |
Albert Jack Reece (1927 - 10 September 1966) was a New Zealand hockey player and cricketer, and umpire at both sports.
Reece played hockey for Canterbury from 1946 to 1956, and represented New Zealand in 1948. He later became a hockey umpire, officiating in a Test between New Zealand and Pakistan in 1958.[1]
Reece played in one first-class match for Canterbury in 1947/48.[2] [3] He umpired eight first-class matches, all of them at Lancaster Park, Christchurch, between 1959 and 1962.[4]
Illness deprived him of his sight in the early 1960s, and he died in September 1966, aged 39.[1]