Lives in Cricket No 14 - Jack Bond

Appendix Career Statistics First-Class Cricket: Batting and Fielding M I NO R HS Ave 100 50 Ct 1955 2 3 0 26 25 8.66 - - 1 1957 23 32 1 608 72 19.61 - 6 24 1958 10 14 0 133 25 9.50 - - 4 1959 18 33 6 862 101* 31.92 1 7 16 1960 18 28 3 565 105* 22.60 2 1 16 1961 35 58 11 1701 152 36.19 3 8 18 1962 36 67 8 2125 157 36.01 5 9 22 1963 11 19 1 239 38 13.27 - - 8 1964 12 21 3 502 105* 27.88 1 1 8 1965 15 26 1 484 112* 19.36 1 1 5 1966 22 38 5 743 90 22.51 - 3 5 1967 17 27 6 649 97 30.90 - 4 13 1968 30 43 10 878 93* 26.60 - 2 13 1969 27 33 3 723 90 24.10 - 5 14 1970 25 33 9 780 89 32.50 - 5 25 1971 24 31 6 561 54* 22.44 - 1 16 1972 20 18 3 301 103* 20.06 1 - 11 1974 17 24 4 245 65* 12.25 - 1 3 Totals 362 548 80 12125 157 25.90 14 54 222 Notes: All Bond’s first-class cricket was played in England and Wales, 344 matches for Lancashire, 17 for Nottinghamshire and one for MCC. He did not play first-class cricket in 1956 and 1973. He was dismissed 315 times caught (67%, an unusually high proportion); 98 times bowled (21%); 34 times lbw (7%); 12 times run out (3%) and nine times stumped (2%). The bowlers who took his wicket most often were G.A.R Lock (ten times), O.S.Wheatley (eight times), and D.Shackleton, D.L.Underwood, J.A.Flavell, D.J.Shepherd and M.N.S.Taylor (seven times). As a fielder he held twenty or more catches off the bowling of K.Higgs, T.Greenhough, P.Lever, D.P.Hughes and J.B.Statham. First-Class Cricket: Bowling O M R W BB Ave 5i 10m 1959 4 1 18 0 - - - - 1960 3 0 17 0 - - - - 1962 2.1 0 22 0 - - - - 1965 1 0 3 0 - - - - 1971 1 0 9 0 - - - - Totals 11.1 1 69 0 - - - - Notes: Overs were of six balls throughout Bond’s career. He conceded runs at a rate of 6.17 per over. A very occasional leg-spinner, he is one of 36 cricketers, all but seven of them wicket-keepers, who have played in 350 first-class matches or more without taking a wicket. 138