Hikatarewa Rockcliffe "Hika" Reid (born 8 April 1958) is a former New Zealand

rugby union Rugby union, commonly known simply as rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in the first half of the 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand. In it ...

player. A hooker, Reid represented

Bay of Plenty The Bay of Plenty ( mi, Te Moana-a-Toi) is a region of New Zealand, situated around a bight of the same name in the northern coast of the North Island. The bight stretches 260 km from the Coromandel Peninsula in the west to Cape Runaw ...

and

Wellington Wellington ( mi, Te Whanganui-a-Tara or ) is the capital city of New Zealand. It is located at the south-western tip of the North Island, between Cook Strait and the Remutaka Range. Wellington is the second-largest city in New Zealand by metr ...

at a provincial level, and was a member of the New Zealand national side, the

All Blacks The New Zealand national rugby union team, commonly known as the All Blacks ( mi, Ōpango), represents New Zealand in men's international rugby union, which is considered the country's national sport. The team won the Rugby World Cup in 1987, ...

, between 1980 and 1986. He played 40 matches for the All Blacks including nine internationals. He is remembered today for a spectacular try in the second test against Australia in Brisbane, 1980, in which he started and ended a counterattack from near the All Blacks' goal line.Winton Aldworth
''Top 10 heroes of the Bledisloe Cup''
NZ Herald, 30 July 2010

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