Gerald Bond
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Gerald Edward Bond (5 April 1909 – 27 August 1965) was a South African cricketer who played in one Test in 1938.[1] He was born and died at Cape Town.
Bond was a right-handed middle- or upper-order batsman and a right-arm medium-pace bowler. He played irregularly for Western Province from 1929-30. His best season was 1936-37 when he scored his only first-class century, a score of 170 for Western Province against Natal which was insufficient to prevent his side losing the match by an innings.[2] In the following game, opening the Western Province bowling against Border, he took four wickets for 17 runs with his medium-pace, the best bowling performance of his career.[3]
Bond's Test career was fleeting. He took two wickets (including Walter Hammond) in Western Province's match against the England team in 1938-39 and scored 13 in each innings.[4] He was then picked for the first Test of a five-match series. When England batted, he was the sixth bowler used and was given only two overs, in which he failed to take a wicket and conceded 16 runs; in the South African innings, the unsuccessful promotion of a nightwatchman meant that he batted at No 9 instead of No 3 or No 4 as he generally did for Western Province, and he was dismissed first ball, one of three first-ball dismissals in the innings.[5] He was not selected for South Africa again and in fact did not play any further first-class cricket either.
References
- ↑ "Gerald Bond". www.cricketarchive.com. Retrieved 2012-01-15.
- ↑ "Scorecard: Natal v Western Province". www.cricketarchive.com. 1937-03-06. Retrieved 2012-01-25.
- ↑ "Scorecard: Border v Western Province". www.cricketarchive.com. 1937-03-13. Retrieved 2012-01-25.
- ↑ "Scorecard: Western Province v MCC". www.cricketarchive.com. 1938-11-12. Retrieved 2012-01-25.
- ↑ "Scorecard: South Africa v England". www.cricketarchive.com. 1938-12-24. Retrieved 2012-01-25.