Former New Zealand Cricket operations manager John Reid with Daniel Vettori. John F Reid, the accomplished left-handed batsman and later cricket administrator, has been remembered by his peers as a dependable team-mate who was a great player of spin bowling. Reid, who played 19 tests for New Zealand – scoring 1296 runs at an average of 46.28, including six centuries – and then went on to have a career as an administrator, has been described as “classy”, a “gentleman”, a “visionary” and one of the “finest batsmen and servants of the game”. The Black Caps have worn black arm bands on the final day of the test against Pakistan in tribute to Reid, who died on Monday, aged 64.