Shane Bond

New Zealand|Bowler
Shane Bond
INTL CAREER: 2001 - 2010
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Full Name

Shane Edward Bond

Born

June 07, 1975, Christchurch, Canterbury

Age

48y 286d

Batting Style

Right hand Bat

Bowling Style

Right arm Fast

Playing Role

Bowler

Fast, fearsome and frustratingly fragile, Shane Bond will be remembered as much for his misfortune with injuries as for his wonderful ability. Bond was New Zealand's best pace bowler in the post-Hadlee era, but missed more games than he played.

At times it seemed less like injuries interrupting Bond's career as Bond's occasional cricket matches interrupting his downtime. The most serious was a back problem in 2003 that led to nearly two years out and an operation in which his spine was fused with titanium wire. There were also various issues with knees, feet and other body parts, but Bond's desire to play could never be questioned. Some of the trouble came from his unwillingness to reduce his intensity; had he been happy to drop his pace and take things easier, he might have played more cricket.

That he didn't take that path said much about his competitive nature; the game always lifted a notch when he had the ball. His athletic action was geared towards inswing and his 150-plus kph efforts meant the ball would swing late. Toe-crushing yorkers were a specialty and he feasted on the world's best batsmen; Ricky Ponting fell to Bond in all of the first six ODIs they played against each other. Bond always lifted against Australia, and it was a sign of his great skill that he took 44 ODI wickets at 15.79 against them. That included a hat-trick in Hobart in 2006-07 and one of Bond's personal favourites, his 6 for 23 against the eventual champions in the 2003 World Cup.

He helped New Zealand to a World Cup semi-final four years later, before signing with the ICL, which led to his being ostracised from international cricket for two years. He returned in late 2009 with enough fuel for one final match-winning performance in the Dunedin Test against Pakistan, but within a year had retired from all forms of the game as his body told him enough was enough.
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Shane Bond Career Stats

Bowling

FormatMatInnsBallsRunsWktsBBIBBMAveEconSR4w5w10w
Tests183233721922876/5110/9922.093.4138.7751
ODIs8280429530701476/196/1920.884.2829.2740
T20Is2020465543253/183/1821.727.0018.6000
FC60-1026354782257/66-24.343.2045.6-121
List A135-690350832146/196/1923.754.4132.2950
T20s40409391109514/194/1921.747.0818.4100

Batting & Fielding

FormatMatInnsNORunsHSAveBFSR100s50s4s6sCtSt
Tests1820716841*12.9243238.880020480
ODIs82402229231*16.2238476.0400199150
T20Is2083218*4.2021100.00002040
FC60702083010016.60--12--240
List A13570334984013.45--00--180
T20s40146328*4.0031103.22002190
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Arshad Khan has a chat with Mumbai Indians' bowling coach Shane Bond
Mark Boucher and Shane Bond catch up at a Mumbai Indians training session
MI Emirates head coach Shane Bond with Imran Tahir during training
Yuvraj Singh and Shane Bond share a laugh
Shane Bond runs into bowl as Morne van Wyk looks on
Tymal Mills speaks to Shane Bond during a training session