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Gerald Bond
Personal information
Born	5 April 1909; Cape Town, Cape Colony
Died	27 August 1965 (aged 56); Cape Town, Cape Province, South Africa
Batting	Right-handed
Bowling	Right-arm medium
International information
National side	South Africa;
Domestic team information
1929/30–1938/39	Western Province
Career statistics
	Source: CricketArchive

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.

Career

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 Wally 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 15 January 2012.
^ "Scorecard: Natal v Western Province". www.cricketarchive.com. 6 March 1937. Retrieved 25 January 2012.
^ "Scorecard: Border v Western Province". www.cricketarchive.com. 13 March 1937. Retrieved 25 January 2012.
^ "Scorecard: Western Province v MCC". www.cricketarchive.com. 12 November 1938. Retrieved 25 January 2012.
^ "Scorecard: South Africa v England". www.cricketarchive.com. 24 December 1938. Retrieved 25 January 2012.