Jack Bond (cricketer)

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Jack Bond
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Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1955–1972Lancashire
1974Nottinghamshire
Career statistics
Competition First-class List A
Matches 362 99
Runs scored 12,125 698
Batting average 25.90 12.92
100s/50s 14/54 0/0
Top score 157 43
Balls bowled 67 –
Wickets 0 –
Bowling average – –
5 wickets in innings – –
10 wickets in match – –
Best bowling – –
Catches/stumpings 222/– 31/–
Source: CricketArchive, 8 September 2009

John David Bond, (6 May 1932 – 11 July 2019) was an English cricketer who played for Lancashire and Nottinghamshire.[1]

Born in Kearsley, Lancashire, England, Bond began his cricket career playing for Walkden, where he was raised, in the Bolton Cricket League. He was a right-handed middle order batsman and joined Lancashire in 1955, being assured of a regular place in a strong batting line-up in only a few seasons, among them 1962, when he scored 2,125 runs at an average of more than 36. But by the mid-1960s, he was second eleven captain and an irregular first-class cricketer.[2]

Success with the second team, though, led to an unexpected call-up to be first team captain from 1968 and over the next five seasons, Bond led a previously under-achieving side to a run of success in

England cricketers such as Barry Wood, David Lloyd, Frank Hayes, Peter Lever and Ken Shuttleworth, and Lancashire recruited proven matchwinners in Clive Lloyd and Farokh Engineer
as the overseas stars.

Bond's great ability was to get match-winning performances out of average county players in one-day games, and he was also a pioneer in using spin bowlers as an integral part of a one-day attack. Under him, Lancashire won the

Gillette Cup, for three seasons in a row from 1970 to 1972, a feat that has not been equalled. The county challenged for the County Championship more strongly during Bond's captaincy than for many years, but he did not achieve the same success in the first-class
game.

Bond was named as a

Asif Iqbal
, which turned the Gillette Cup Final that year. He retired from Lancashire after the 1972 season, then came back unsuccessfully to first-class cricket as player-manager of Nottinghamshire for a single season in 1974.

In the mid 1970s Bond moved to the Isle of Man, becoming head coach and cricket professional at King William's College. He also revealed himself as a fine table tennis player, leading the KWC team to the top of the Manx leagues and winning the Island championships. He returned to Old Trafford in the 1980s, as the manager of Lancashire.

Bond died on 11 July 2019.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b "Jack Bond: Former Lancashire captain dies aged 87". BBC Sport. Retrieved 13 July 2019.
  2. ^ Mason, Peter (14 July 2019). "Jack Bond obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 14 July 2019.

External links

Sporting positions
Preceded by Nottinghamshire County cricket captain
1974 		Succeeded by
Mike Smedley
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