Aaron Redmond
{{short description|New Zealand cricketer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2023}}
{{Use New Zealand English|date=July 2013}}
{{Infobox cricketer
| name = Aaron Redmond
| image = Aaron_Redmond_batting,_cropped.jpg
| caption = Redmond batting for New Zealand against Australia in 2008
| country = New Zealand
| fullname = Aaron Joseph Redmond
| nickname = Redders
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1979|9|23|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Auckland, New Zealand
| family = Rodney Redmond (father)
| batting = Right-handed
| bowling = Right-arm leg spin
| role = Batsman
| international = true
| internationalspan = 2008–2013
| testdebutdate = 15 May
| testdebutyear = 2008
| testdebutagainst = England
| testcap = 239
| lasttestdate = 3 December
| lasttestyear = 2013
| lasttestagainst = West Indies
| odidebutdate = 3 October
| odidebutyear = 2009
| odidebutagainst = Australia
| odicap = 157
| lastodidate = 14 October
| lastodiyear = 2010
| lastodiagainst = Bangladesh
| T20Icap = 40
| T20Idebutdate = 11 June
| T20Idebutyear = 2009
| T20Idebutagainst = Ireland
| odishirt = 40
| lastT20Idate = 23 May
| lastT20Iyear = 2010
| lastT20Iagainst = Sri Lanka
| T20Ishirt = 40
| club1 = Canterbury
| year1 = {{nowrap|1999/00–2003/04}}
| club2 = Otago
| year2 = 2004/05–2014/15
| club3 = Gloucestershire
| year3 = 2010
| columns = 4
| column1 = Test
| matches1 = 8
| runs1 = 325
| bat avg1 = 21.66
| 100s/50s1 = 0/2
| top score1 = 83
| deliveries1 = 105
| wickets1 = 3
| bowl avg1 = 26.66
| fivefor1 = 0
| tenfor1 = 0
| best bowling1 = 2/47
| catches/stumpings1 = 5/–
| column2 = ODI
| matches2 = 6
| runs2 = 152
| bat avg2 = 25.33
| 100s/50s2 = 0/1
| top score2 = 52
| deliveries2 = –
| wickets2 = –
| bowl avg2 = –
| fivefor2 = –
| tenfor2 = –
| best bowling2 = –
| catches/stumpings2 = 3/–
| column3 = FC
| matches3 = 129
| runs3 = 7,247
| bat avg3 = 34.18
| 100s/50s3 = 15/41
| top score3 = 154
| deliveries3 = 8,443
| wickets3 = 107
| bowl avg3 = 42.76
| fivefor3 = 0
| tenfor3 = 0
| best bowling3 = 4/30
| catches/stumpings3 = 89/–
| column4 = LA
| matches4 = 125
| runs4 = 2,941
| bat avg4 = 26.73
| 100s/50s4 = 3/18
| top score4 = 134*
| deliveries4 = 1,094
| wickets4 = 23
| bowl avg4 = 41.00
| fivefor4 = 0
| tenfor4 = 0
| best bowling4 = 3/40
| catches/stumpings4 = 45/–
| date = 12 April
| year = 2022
| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/38264.html Cricinfo
}}
Aaron James Redmond (born 23 September 1979) is a former New Zealand international cricketer. He was a member of the Otago cricket team for ten seasons, having previously played for Canterbury. Redmond played as a right-handed batsman. He made eight Test match, six One Day International and seven Twenty20 International appearances for the New Zealand national cricket team between 2008 and 2013.
Early life and family
Redmond was born at Auckland in 1979 and brought up in Australia where he attended Kent Street Senior High School in Perth.[https://www.espncricinfo.com/cricketers/aaron-redmond-38264 Aaron Redmond], CricInfo. Retrieved 10 May 2008.McCarron A (2010) New Zealand Cricketers 1863/64–2010, p. 111. Cardiff: The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. {{isbn|978 1 905138 98 2}} ([https://archive.acscricket.com/cricketers_series/new_zealand_cricketers_1863-64_2010/index.html Available online] at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 5 June 2023.)Seconi A (2018) [https://www.odt.co.nz/lifestyle/summer-times/working-wigan-missing-dunners Working in Wigan, missing Dunners], Otago Daily Times, 29 December 2018. Retrieved 14 December 2023. He played cricket for Western Australia under-19s whilst at school.[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/11/11130/11130.html Aaron Redmond], CricketArchive. Retrieved 14 December 2023. {{subscription}} His father, Rodney Redmond, played international cricket for New Zealand in the 1970s and was the New Zealand Cricket Almanack player of the year in 1973.[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/1/1412/1412.html Rodney Redmond], CricketArchive. Retrieved 14 December 2023. {{subscription}}
Redmond met his wife whilst playing club cricket for Wigan Cricket Club in England. After his retirement, the family moved back to England full-time, with Redmond working as an accountant as well as coaching and playing for Wigan.
Domestic career
Redmond originally joined Canterbury as a leg spinner in 1999, but converted to become a top-order batsman after moving to Otago ahead of the 2004–05 season. He played 55 senior matches for Canterbury and over 200 for Otago, scoring centuries for the side in first-class, List A and Twenty20 cricket. Described as "solid rather than spectacular", he scored over 7,000 first-class runs, including 15 centuries.[https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/aaron-redmond-ends-16-year-career-857801 Aaron Redmond ends 16-year career], CricInfo, 1 April 2015. Retrieved 14 December 2023. He retired as the sixth highest run scorer for Otago in first-class cricket, with 4,795 runs at an average of 39.30 runs per innings. he scored 11 centuries for the province, including
International career
After a successful domestic career, he was called up to the full international squad for the tour of England in 2008, where he made his mark with a career best score of 146 against the England Lions, beating his previous best of 135.[http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/counties/7392094.stm Redmond ton boosts Test prospects], BBC Sport, 9 May 2008. 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 James Anderson. Overall the three-match Test series against England 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.[http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/nzvwi2008_09/content/current/story/380900.html Franklin included in new-look Test squad], CricInfo, 6 December 2008. Retrieved 6 December 2008. Former New Zealand cricket captain, Martin Crowe stated that he did not believe that Redmond was good enough to play Test cricket, but conceded that his first year in Test cricket―in which he averaged 23.00 in seven matches―had been a difficult one.[http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/nzvwi2008_09/content/current/story/381014.html 'Ripper' New Zealand on right track – Crowe], CricInfo, 6 December 2008. Retrieved 6 December 2008. In December 2013 he was recalled into the Test side in the home series against the West Indies, playing in the first Test at Dunedin.
As well as his eight Test match appearances, Redmond played One Day International and Twenty20 International cricket, making 13 one-day appearances for New Zealand, all during 2009 and 2010. He retired from cricket at the end of the 2014–15 season.
References
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External links
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