Top 10 players of all time from Canterbury

#2 Shane Bond

Bond made an ever-lasting impact with the ball despite his constant injury troubles

Undoubtedly New Zealand's greatest fast bowler since Sir Richard Hadlee, Shane Bond's career was one plagued by injuries, but such was the impact he made during his short career that he is counted amongst the greatest players to have played the game.

Bond has the second best bowling strike rate of all time in Test match cricket (38.7) and his express pace and toe-crushing yorkers made the New Zealand speedster one of the toughest bowlers to face up to.

Bond made his first-class debut as a 21-year-old for Canterbury against Central Districts but played only 12 matches during his first three seasons before quitting the game for nearly a year after joining New Zealand police.

Luckily for cricket fans, Bond came back to the sport and made his Test debut for New Zealand in 2001 and made an immediate impact with his sheer pace and wicket-taking abilities.

Bond picked 87 wickets from just 18 Tests and 147 wickets from 82 ODIs - remarkable figures to say the least.Bond reserved his best for New Zealand's Trans-Tasman rivals Australia, proving a nemesis for Ricky Ponting whom he dismissed in each of the first six ODIs they played against each other.

Bond's 6/23 against eventual champions Australia in the 2003 World Cup is still talked about as one of the best spells of bowling in World Cup history and it's a shame that the world got to see so less of Bond as a player owing to his injury troubles.