John David Bond, (6 May 1932 – 11 July 2019) was an English

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er who played for

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and

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. Born in

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, England, Bond began his cricket career playing for

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, where he was raised, in the

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. 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

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cricketers such as Barry Wood, David Lloyd, Frank Hayes,

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and Ken Shuttleworth, and Lancashire recruited proven matchwinners in

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and

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as the overseas stars. 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

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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

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for his captaincy in 1971. He also took a 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

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, becoming head coach and cricket professional at

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. He also revealed himself as a fine

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player, leading the KWC team to the top of the Manx leagues and winning the Island championships. He returned to Old Trafford in the 1980s, as the manager of Lancashire. Bond died on 11 July 2019.

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