New Zealand’s ace speedster Shane Bond will be joining the Indian Cricket League. ICL’s official Ashish Kaul confirmed today that the Kiwi pacer is all set to sign a three-year contract worth $800,000 with the Rebel League. Bond’s switch to the ICL will be a major boost for the League which had a successful inaugural T20 tournament last year. He will become the seventh and the most high profile New Zealand player to join ICL after he signs the contract.Bond is regarded as the best New Zealand pace bowler after Sir Richard Hadlee and his departure has left a big hole in the Kiwi pace attack to be filled. Bond who is recovering from an abdominal injury has kept his mum on the issue. Although, New Zealand Cricket (NZC) chief executive Justin Vaughan has admitted that Bond has made a move to ICL.
The right-arm pacer has 79 wickets in 17 tests to his name at an average of 22.39. Bond’s move to ICL will be a good opportunity for the young players in the League as they will be able to gain some experience from the fiery speedster.
Chris Cairns, Nathan Astle, Chris Harris and Craig McMillan, Hamish Marshall and Daryl Tuffey are the Kiwi players who have already taken part in the recent ICL Twenty20 league. The other big names in ICL are Brian Lara of West Indies and Pakistan's Inzamam-ul-Haq.
The cash-rich ICL has announced a series of events in 2008 in which we can see Shane Bond playing. It will be interesting to see which team the 32-year-old represents in ICL and whether he can deliver a similar impact like his New Zealand team-mates did in the inaugural tournament.
Source : http://www.indiancricketleague.in/
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