Shane Bond
- See also Shane Bond (Australian rules footballer) (b. 1975).
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Source: [1], February 18 2007 |
Shane Edward Bond (born 7 June, 1975 in Christchurch) is a New Zealand cricketer. A right-handed fast bowler, who plays for the Canterbury Wizards state team and has played for the national side since 2001. He has been New Zealand's most potent fast bowling threat for a number of years.
Bond played his first series for New Zealand cricket team in 2001 against Australia away. Soon thereafter, in the 2001/02 VB Series against Australia and South Africa, he earned player of the tournament honors after taking 21 wickets in 9 games.
After the tournament he suffered a foot injury, one of many that would marr his career. However he was back in action for New Zealand's 2002 tour of the West Indies. He was New Zealand's top wicket taker in their first ever series win in the Caribbean. He continued to bowl well, again leading the New Zealand bowling averages at the 2003 World Cup. However, shortly after the tournament he suffered a stress fracture in his back. Whilst he initially planned to make a comeback in February 2004, Bond remained out of the side until August 2005. However his remodelled action has proven just as lethal. In his second match after his return Bond took 6-19 against India.
Best Performances
On 26 January 2002, Shane Bond bowled New Zealand to a great victory over Australia, getting 5/25. Later, in the Cricket World Cup, Bond achieved 6/23 again against Australia (New Zealand's best bowling performance in ODIs at the time) - which including being on a hat-trick getting Damien Martyn and Brad Hogg in consecutive deliveries. Bond struggled with many tender back problems which cause soft tissue to break. These injuries have ruled him out in a lot of international cricket in the past.
Recently, against India, Bond saved New Zealand from losing with an amazing spell of 6/19, including the wickets of Rahul Dravid, Sourav Ganguly and Virender Sehwag. These are the best One Day International bowling performances by a New Zealander to date.
In a Test match against the West Indies, Bond took 5-69, his fourth 5-wicket haul in just 13 International Tests Matches, and went on to win the man of the match award. By his own admission, this was one of Bond's best ever bowling efforts. New Zealand, thanks to Bond's spell, went on to defeat the West Indies by 27 runs.
On 14 January, 2007, Bond took a hat-trick in the last over against Australia in a one-day international at the Bellerive Oval, dismissing Cameron White, Andrew Symonds and Nathan Bracken in successive deliveries, becoming just the second New Zealand player to take a hat-trick in limited-overs international cricket, although the game was still lost by 105 runs[2].
Shortly Afterwards on 23 January 2007 Bond became the second-fastest bowler in history to take 100 One-Day wickets, behind Pakistan's Saqlain Mushtaq by one match. It is of interest, however, that Bond needed 54 fewer deliveries to achieve the feat, and was the fastest bowler to take 100 wickets in terms of number of deliveries bowled.
On 16 February 2007, Bond took 5-23, his fourth 5-wicket haul, in the 2007 Chappell-Hadlee Trophy. This enabled New Zealand to dismiss Australia for 149, giving the New Zealanders a 10-wicket victory over them, the Australians' heaviest one day defeat, and although he sat out the final game in the Chappell-Hadlee series, he was instrumental in the eventual 3-0 series win for the first time in Chappell-Hadlee Trophy history.
His accurate bowling was part of the New Zealand win over England in the 2007 World Cup game on the 16th of march, taking two wickets during 10 overs costing 19 runs.
In 2002, Bond had a stint with Warwickshire in the English County Championship.
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Tuffey and Vincent were injured during the tournament and replaced in the squad by Martin and Marshall respectively. | ||