| Gerald Bond | |
| Birth Date: | 5 April 1909 |
| Birth Place: | Cape Town, Cape Colony |
| Death Place: | Cape Town, Cape Province, South Africa |
| Batting: | Right-handed |
| Bowling: | Right-arm medium |
| Club1: | Western Province |
| Columns: | 2 |
| Column1: | Tests |
| Matches1: | 1 |
| Runs1: | 0 |
| Bat Avg1: | 0 |
| 100S/50S1: | 0/0 |
| Top Score1: | 0 |
| Deliveries1: | 16 |
| Wickets1: | 0 |
| Bowl Avg1: | – |
| Fivefor1: | 0 |
| Tenfor1: | 0 |
| Best Bowling1: | – |
| Catches/Stumpings1: | 0/– |
| Column2: | First-class |
| Matches2: | 28 |
| Runs2: | 1604 |
| Bat Avg2: | 41.12 |
| 100S/50S2: | 1/11 |
| Top Score2: | 170 |
| Deliveries2: | 1462 |
| Wickets2: | 20 |
| Bowl Avg2: | 35.35 |
| Fivefor2: | 0 |
| Tenfor2: | 0 |
| Best Bowling2: | 4/17 |
| Catches/Stumpings2: | 11/– |
| International: | true |
| Country: | South Africa |
| Testdebutdate: | 24 December |
| Testdebutyear: | 1938 |
| Lasttestdate: | 24 December |
| Lasttestyear: | 1938 |
| Source: | https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/0/713/713.html CricketArchive |
Gerald Edward Bond (5 April 1909 – 27 August 1965) was a South African cricketer who played in one Test in 1938.[1] He was born and died at Cape Town.
Bond was a right-handed middle- or upper-order batsman and a right-arm medium-pace bowler. He played irregularly for Western Province from 1929–30. His best season was 1936–37 when he scored his only first-class century, a score of 170 for Western Province against Natal which was insufficient to prevent his side losing the match by an innings.[2] In the following game, opening the Western Province bowling against Border, he took four wickets for 17 runs with his medium-pace, the best bowling performance of his career.[3]
Bond's Test career was fleeting. He took two wickets (including Wally Hammond) in Western Province's match against the England team in 1938–39 and scored 13 in each innings.[4] He was then picked for the first Test of a five-match series. When England batted, he was the sixth bowler used and was given only two overs, in which he failed to take a wicket and conceded 16 runs; in the South African innings, the unsuccessful promotion of a nightwatchman meant that he batted at no. 9 instead of no. 3 or no. 4 as he generally did for Western Province, and he was dismissed first ball, one of three first-ball dismissals in the innings.[5] He was not selected for South Africa again and in fact did not play any further first-class cricket either.