Jack Bond (cricketer)

Jack Bond
Personal information
Full name John David Bond
Born (1932-05-06) 6 May 1932
Kearsley, Lancashire, England, UK
Batting style Right-handed
Bowling style Right arm leg break
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1955–1972 Lancashire
1974 Nottinghamshire
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 0
Wickets 0
Bowling average
5 wickets in innings
10 wickets in match n/a
Best bowling
Catches/stumpings 222/– 31/–
Source: CricketArchive, 8 September 2009

John David "Jack" Bond, born in Kearsley, near Bolton, Lancashire, on 6 May 1932, is a former cricketer who played for Lancashire and, for one season, for Nottinghamshire.

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.

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 one-day cricket competitions that has not been equalled. Intensively competitive, Bond led by example in the field and often made useful runs, normally batting at No 6 or lower. A mostly young team included future 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.

But 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 Sunday cricket league in its first two seasons, 1969 and 1970, and took the premier one-day trophy, then called 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 Wisden Cricketer of the Year for his captaincy in 1971. He also took a famous catch to dismiss 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 himself. He returned to Old Trafford in the 1980s, as the manager of Lancashire.

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