Aaron James Redmond (born 23 September 1979) is a former

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er. He was a member of the

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for ten seasons. Redmond is a right-handed batsman who debuted for

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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

in 1972/1973 against

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Domestic career

Redmond originally joined Canterbury as a

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er in 1999, but was became a top-order batsman after moving to Otago. retrieved 10 May 2008 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

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cricket he averages 23.68 after over 60 matches, with two centuries. In

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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.

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.'' Redmond ton boosts Test prospects''

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retrieved 10 May 2008 He made his test debut on 15 May 2008 at Lord's, but was out for a duck off the bowling of

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. Overall the three-match test series against

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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. Former New Zealand cricket captain,

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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. Retrieved on 6 December 2008. In December 2013 he was recalled into the Test side in the home series against the West Indies.

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