The importance of being Bond
While perhaps the average speed of the Black Caps attack has increased in the past few years, do not think for a moment that a potent New Zealand test match bowling attack can do without Bond, writes Mark Richardson in the New Zealand Herald .
I think the first time I played them, it was a case of me realising that I could play at that level. The next time I played them, I had been out of the game pretty much for two years and I had a point to prove.
Siddhartha Vaidyanathan is a former assistant editor at Cricinfo