Jack Reece

{{short description|New Zealand field hockey player and cricketer}}

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| 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

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| date = 20 October 2020

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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.{{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}}

Reece played in one first-class match for Canterbury in 1947/48.{{cite web |url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/38295.html |title=Jack Reece |work=ESPN Cricinfo |accessdate=20 October 2020}}{{cite web |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/22/22729/22729.html |title=Jack Reece |work=ESPN Cricinfo |accessdate=20 October 2020}} He umpired eight first-class matches, all of them at Lancaster Park, Christchurch, between 1959 and 1962.{{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}}

Illness deprived him of his sight in the early 1960s, and he died in September 1966, aged 39.