Fast, fierce, gray eyed, precisely six ft, lengthy hair, educated as a policeman, wore black, on events white, and only a reward to observe on a cricket pitch. Across the 82 ODIs, 18 Tests and 20 T20Is and the various home video games he performed in, Shane Bond was as good a specimen as cricket may give this world.
A pacer who didn’t compromise on the tempo even after being examined relentlessly by a number of accidents throughout his profession.
“I loved that feeling of running in and bowling fast all the time and I just didn’t pull it back,” he mentioned in an interview to Cricbuzz a number of years again.
As the participant turned coach turns 47, allow us to look again at a few of his nice moments on the pitch.
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6/51 and 4/48 vs Zimbabwe (Bulawayo, Test, 2005)
Against a Zimbabwe workforce that wasn’t at its finest however was nonetheless a tricky competitor at dwelling, Bond made New Zealand’s first innings whole of 484 look huge with a 10-wicket haul within the Test, gifting away lower than 100 runs in his general spell of 31 overs within the Test. He was named the participant of the match and the two-match sequence.
5/23 vs Australia (Wellington, ODI, 2007)
Just forward of the 2007 World Cup, Australia and New Zealand locked horns for a three-match ODI sequence. Bond took little time to come up with the state of affairs within the first sport as he ran by way of an Australia batting order that was lacking some huge names however was nonetheless very sturdy. 5/23 in 9.3 overs of bowling led New Zealand to dismiss their trans-tasman rivals at 148. Openers Lou Vincent and Stephen Fleming chased the entire inside 27 overs with out giving the Australia bowlers something to take again dwelling. Player of the match? You know who.
6 for 19 vs India (Bulawayo, 2005, ODI)
Another 2005 Bulawayo reminiscence for the Kiwi fast got here towards the Indian lineup that boasted some ‘big’ names so to say within the mid-aughts. 215 wasn’t going to be an enormous whole to defend had it not been for the then 30-year previous who picked Sourav Ganguly, Virender Sehwag, Venugopal Rao, Rahul Dravid, Mohammed Kaif and Irfan Pathan on his outing.
6 for 23 v Australia (Gqeberha, 2003, ODI)
A World Cup 6fer vs your arch rivals certainly has the elements to be essentially the most memorable of your cookings, proper? Against an Australia batting lineup that was on the peak of its powers, Bond wreaked havoc within the Super Six levels of the match. It was a disgrace however not a shock towards a stern bowling assault that the New Zealand batters weren’t in a position to pull off a win. Bond’s spell although, is deservedly remembered as probably the greatest by a bowler on the World Cup.
2/57 and 5/69 vs West Indies (Auckland, Test, 2006)
A see-saw sport of cricket as West Indies started their tour of New Zealand in March 2006. Batting first New Zealand had received to 275 and had been in a position to take a primary innings lead of 18 runs. The hosts then posted a complete of 291 for the guests. Powered by Chris Gayle and Daren Ganga, West Indies had been marching sturdy in the direction of the entire having misplaced no wicket on the rating of 148. A few fast wickets from Nathan Astle after which the lighting known as Shane Bond struck. His 5/69 helped New Zealand win the primary Test by 27 runs.
