{{short description|New Zealand field hockey player and cricketer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2020}} {{Use New Zealand English|date=October 2020}} {{Infobox cricketer | name = Jack Reece | image = | fullname = Albert Jack Reece | birth_date = 1927 | birth_place = Christchurch, New Zealand | death_date = 10 September {{death year and age|1966|1927}} | death_place = Christchurch, New Zealand | batting = | bowling = | role =
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| 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.<ref name=JR>{{cite journal |title=Mr. J. Reece Dead |journal=Press |date=13 September 1966 |page=18 |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19660913.2.163}}</ref>
Reece played in one first-class match for Canterbury in 1947/48.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/38295.html |title=Jack Reece |work=ESPN Cricinfo |accessdate=20 October 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/22/22729/22729.html |title=Jack Reece |work=ESPN Cricinfo |accessdate=20 October 2020}}</ref> He umpired eight first-class matches, all of them at Lancaster Park, Christchurch, between 1959 and 1962.<ref>{{cite web |title=Jack Reece as Umpire in First-Class Matches |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/22/22729/Umpire_in_First-Class_Matches.html |website=CricketArchive |access-date=22 May 2022}}</ref>
Illness deprived him of his sight in the early 1960s, and he died in September 1966, aged 39.<ref name=JR/>
==See also== * List of Canterbury representative cricketers
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