Bangalore blasts hurried Bond departure

“It (the Bangalore bombing) definitely made me more nervy. We went over there with the threat,I guess,but when that happened it became a reality,” Bond was quoted as saying by The New Zealand Herald.

“We had one game left at that stage and knew we couldn’t qualify for the semi-finals,so we just wanted to get out of there,really,” he said. Bond and compatriot Brendon McCullum,who also played for Kolkata,packed their bags as soon as their matches got over,even though they were expected to stay till the closing ceremony on Sunday. Bond and McCullum will now join the national team for the Twenty20 World Cup.

The paceman said though KKR may not have done too well,he was happy with his own performance. “It wasn’t too bad,I was pretty happy with the way I bowled. I missed a few games in the middle,which was disappointing,but I came back pretty strongly in the last few games,” he said.

“I missed out at Bangalore for whatever reason and that was the quickest wicket we played on,so that was probably a mistake,” he added. Bond took nine wickets in eight matches at an economy rate of 7.2.