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"Bond set to join ICL on $800,000 contract"

Wellington (PTI): Pace spearhead Shane Bond is all set to become the seventh and the most high-profile New Zealand player to join the rebel Indian Cricket League (ICL), on a three-year contract worth $800,000.

Although Bond, currently recovering from an abdominal strain, has chosen to remain mum on the issue, New Zealand Cricket (NZC) chief executive Justin Vaughan has admitted that Bond was all but lost to the ICL.

"I can't say for certain he has signed but I understand that is what his agent is saying," Vaughan was quoted as saying by the 'Dominican Post' here.

However, Vaughan said NZC would do all it can to bring Bond back into the fold even if it meant fighting an expensive legal battle to wriggle him out of the ICL contract.

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