Posted December 06, 2013 21:45 · last edited March 18, 2021 07:28
https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/cricket/9450458/Shane-Bond-blasts-benign-test-match-pitches
"Shane Bond has pleaded for spicy, bowler-friendly test wickets this summer.
The former quick and current New Zealand bowling coach wants the domestic and test pitches to offer more for the bowlers.
Dead and flat wickets, Bond said, did nothing to help promote the game and bowler-friendly wickets could help the national side lift its miserly test ranking."
http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/cricket/9450458/Shane-Bond-blasts-benign-test-match-pitches
"Shane Bond has pleaded for spicy, bowler-friendly test wickets this summer.
The former quick and current New Zealand bowling coach wants the domestic and test pitches to offer more for the bowlers.
Dead and flat wickets, Bond said, did nothing to help promote the game and bowler-friendly wickets could help the national side lift its miserly test ranking."