Alan Herbert Preston (29 October 1932 – 2 September 2004) was a New Zealand football (soccer) player and cricketer who represented the New Zealand national football team and played 38 first-class matches for Wellington and two for the North Island.
Football Preston made his full All Whites debut in a 2–1 win over Australia on 14 August 1954 and played twice over the next two weeks against the same opposition, losing both 1–4.
Cricket
A right-hand batsman and right-arm medium-pace bowler, Preston played 38 matches for Wellington, and two for a North Island XI against the South Island XI, between 1955 and 1963. He averaged 24.54 runs in 69 innings, with a highest score of 122 in Wellington's victory over Northern Districts in 1956–57, and had career-best bowling figures of 3 for 32. In early 1959, the cricket correspondent of The Press described him as "a plucky batsman and a magnificent field" and said he was unlucky to miss Test selection.
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