There has been more than one fast bowler in cricket history. In the 70-80s, the West Indies fast bowlers used to speak and the batsmen used to fear them. At the same time, the Australian team also had deadly fast bowlers like Dennis Lily and Jame Thompson, which was not easy for the batsmen to face. Then in the 21st century, fast bowlers like Brett Lee (Australia), Shoaib Akhtar (Pakistan) came out, who easily crossed the 150 kmph barrier.

Inzri spoiled this bowler’s career

Shoaib Akhtar threw a ball at a speed of 100.23 mph (161.3 kmph) in the match against England in the ODI World Cup 2003, which is still the fastest ball recorded in cricket history. Like Brett Lee and Shoaib Akhtar, New Zealand fast bowler Shane Bond also made headlines due to his stormy bowling. He was New Zealand’s best fast bowler after Richard Hadley. Shane Bond is celebrating his 50th birthday today (June 7).

Shane Bond missed more than all the matches played in his cricket career. The main reason for this was- their frequent injuries. In 2003, Bond suffered a back injury, due to which he remained out of cricket for almost two years. During this time, surgery was done with titanium wire in his spinal cord. There were problems in his knees, legs and many parts of the body, but the passion to play never reduced.

Bond did not compromise at its speed

Right -arm fast bowler Shane Bond reduced his speed, his career would go long, but he did not compromise on speed. He always bowled with full force. His bowling was not only speeding, but also used to swing the ball late, due to which the batsmen would get into trouble. Bond yorker was also throwing balls. Veteran batsmen like Ricky Ponting were dismissed every time in the first six ODIs against him.

Shane Bond played 18 Tests, 82 ODIs and 20 T20 matches for New Zealand. Bond made his Test debut in November 2001, but due to Injri, he could not even touch the 100 wickets in Test cricket. In Test cricket, Bond took 87 wickets at an average of 22.09. During this, he took five or more wickets in the innings on 5 occasions. At the same time, in the name of Bond in ODI International, 147 wickets are recorded from the average of 20.88. Bond took 5 wickets halls four times in ODI International. In T20 International, Bond took 25 wickets from 21.72 averages. Bond also scored 481 runs in international cricket.

Ball fire against Australia!

Shane Bond’s performance against Australia was very wonderful. He took 44 wickets against the Kangaroo team at an average of 15.79 in 17 ODIs. 6 wickets taken in the 2003 ODI World Cup match and a hat -trick taken on Hobard ground in January 2007 are also included. Bond played an important role in reaching New Zealand to the semi -finals in the 2007 ODI World Cup. In 2008, he joined the Indian Cricket League (ICL), due to which the New Zealand Cricket (NZC) ended his central contract.

In 2009, Shane Bond returned to international cricket and performed a match winning performance in the last Test of his career in Dunedin against Pakistan (22 runs for 8 wickets). However, the very next year (2010) Bond retired from all the formats of cricket. After leaving cricket, he turned to coaching and became New Zealand’s bowling coach in 2012, he played this role till the ODI World Cup 2015. Bond is currently the bowling coach of Rajasthan Royals (RR) in the Indian Premier League (IPL). He has also appeared in this role with Mumbai Indians (Mi).