Aaron James Redmond (born 23 September 1979) is a former New Zealand international

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er. He was a member of the Otago cricket team for ten seasons, having previously played for

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. Redmond played as a right-handed batsman. He made eight Test match, six

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and seven

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appearances for the

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between 2008 and 2013.

Early life and family

Redmond was born at

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in 1979 and brought up in Australia where he attended

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.Aaron Redmond

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. Retrieved 10 May 2008.McCarron A (2010) ''New Zealand Cricketers 1863/64–2010'', p. 111. Cardiff: The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians.
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'', 29 December 2018. Retrieved 14 December 2023. He played cricket for

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under-19s whilst at school.Aaron Redmond
CricketArchive. Retrieved 14 December 2023. His father,

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, played international cricket for New Zealand in the 1970s and was the ''New Zealand Cricket Almanack'' player of the year in 1973. Redmond met his wife whilst playing club cricket for

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Cricket Club in England. After his retirement, the family moved back to England full-time, with Redmond working as an

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as well as coaching and playing for Wigan.

Domestic career

Redmond originally joined Canterbury as a

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ner 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,

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and

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. Described as "solid rather than spectacular", he scored over 7,000 first-class runs, including 15 centuries.Aaron Redmond ends 16-year career

, 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

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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.Redmond ton boosts Test prospects

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, 9 May 2008. Retrieved 10 May 2008 He made his Test debut on 15 May 2008 at

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, but was out for a duck off the bowling of James Anderson. Overall the three-match Test series against

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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. 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.'Ripper' New Zealand on right track – Crowe

, 6 December 2008. Retrieved 6 December 2008. In December 2013 he was recalled into the Test side in the home series against the

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, playing in the first Test at

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. 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.

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