Aaron Redmond

Aaron Redmond
Personal information
Full name Aaron James Redmond
Born 23 September 1979 (1979-09-23) (age 32)
Perth, Australia
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm Leg Spin
Role Batsman
International information
National side New Zealand
Test debut (cap 239) 15 May 2008 v England
Last Test 28 November 2008 v Australia
ODI debut 3 October 2009 v Pakistan
Last ODI 9 November 2009 v Pakistan
Domestic team information
Years Team
2005–present Otago
2000–2004 Canterbury
Career statistics
Competition Test FC LA ODI
Matches 7 84 84 5
Runs scored 299 4,381 1,789 136
Batting average 23.00 32.45 24.17 27.20
100s/50s 0/2 7/27 2/8 0/1
Top score 83 146 134* 52
Balls bowled 75 7,898 998
Wickets 3 100 20
Bowling average 20.66 43.14 41.95
5 wickets in innings 0 0 0
10 wickets in match 0 0 n/a
Best bowling 2/47 4/30 3/40
Catches/stumpings 5/– 65/– 23/– 2/–
Source: CricketArchive, 10 November 2009

Aaron James Redmond (born 23 September 1979) is an Australian-born New Zealand international cricketer. He was a member of the Otago cricket team, competing in the State Championship, State Shield and State Twenty20 competitions in 2006. Redmond is a right-handed batsman who debuted for Canterbury in the 1999/2000 season, playing first-class and list A matches for them. His father is Rodney Redmond, an international cricketer who scored 107 and 56 on debut for New Zealand in 1972/1973 against Pakistan at Christchurch.

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Domestic career

Redmond originally joined Canterburyas a legspiner in 1999, but was forced to become a top-order batsman upon his move to Otago .[1] He has had a solid, if not spectacular, first class career of 68 first class matches at 31.01 with five centuries, and his part time spin bowling has earned him over 80 wickets. In List-A cricket he averages 23.68 after over 60 matches, with two centuries.[1] In Twenty20 cricket, he averages 14.55 and has a high score of 59 from 13 matches, having played his debut Twenty20 match on 13 January 2006 for Otago against his former team, Canterbury.[1]

International career

After a successful domestic career, he was called up to the full international squad for their tour of England in 2008, where he made his mark with a career best 146 against the England Lions, beating his previous best of 135.[2] He made his test debut on 15 May 2008 at Lord's cricket ground, but was out for a duck off the bowling of James Anderson. Overall the three-match test series against England was a disappointment for Redmond, making a total of just 54 runs at an average of 9.00.

Redmond was dropped for the two-Test series against West Indies in December 2008. The move came after New Zealand lost a two-Test series to Australia 2-0, in which Redmond scored 115 runs at an average of 28.75.[3] Former New Zealand cricket captain, Martin Crowe stated that he did not believe that Redmond is good enough to play Test cricket, but has conceded that his first year in Test cricket – in which he averaged 23.00 in seven matches – had been a difficult one.[4]

Notes

  1. ^ a b c Player profile: Aaron Redmond from ESPNcricinfo retrieved 10 May 2008
  2. ^ Redmond ton boosts Test prospects BBC News retrieved 10 May 2008
  3. ^ Cricinfo staff (6 December 2008), Franklin included in new-look Test squad, Cricinfo.com, http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/nzvwi2008_09/content/current/story/380900.html  Retrieved on 6 December 2008.
  4. ^ Cricinfo staff (6 December 2008), 'Ripper' New Zealand on right track - Crowe, Cricinfo.com, http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/nzvwi2008_09/content/current/story/381014.html  Retrieved on 6 December 2008.

External links

New Zealand squad – 2009 ICC World Twenty20
Aaron Redmond was called up to cover for the injured Jesse Ryder.
New Zealand squad – 2010 ICC World Twenty20
Otago Volts – current squad