Meet Lockie Ferguson: New Zealand's Newest Tearaway Quick

More than any other sight in cricket, is there anything more satisfying to watch than a fast bowler, in full flight, firing through in-swinging yorkers at more than 150km per hour? It really is the ultimate.

Due to slow nature of New Zealand wickets, Kiwi cricket hasn't been well served by quality quicks over the years – though one name always comes to mind.

Bond, Shane Bond.

For a younger generation of Kiwi cricket fans who missed out on the mathematical brilliance and pace of Sir Richard Hadlee, Bondie, a New Zealand rep between 2001 and 2011, was The Man. Capable of destroying upper and middle orders with a brutal, heat-seeking pace, Bond could crank the speed radar right up to the mid-150s - with outstanding accuracy and length.

Auckland seamer Lockie Ferguson taking a five-wicket bag for Auckland earlier in the summer. Source: Youtube.

Lockie Ferguson was part of that generation, watching on. And the newest Black Cap – he'll make his one-day debut against Australia at some point over the next ten days – admits that, for the most part, his direction as a seamer has been dictated by Bondy.

"When I was younger, obviously Bondy was a big deal in New Zealand cricket," Ferguson told the New Zealand Herald.

"He bowled quick and was a superstar, so naturally I wanted to copy him."

While fellow seamer Adam Milne has pushed the whiteball above 150km per hour before, the 25-year-old Aucklander is most likely New Zealand's quickest seamer since Bond.

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It has been widely reported that Ferguson had a delivery recorded at 155 km per hour at a pre-season camp in Lincoln earlier this year. That's only 0.4km slower than Bond's best.

Ferguson, who has taken 16 wickets in eight provincial one-day games at 28.12, told the Herald he knows when he's let a good one loose.

"I played a lot of golf as a youngster and it's pretty similar feeling to when you know you've hit a good drive," he says.

"Your body lines up and you almost don't have to look. This is similar. When the body loads up and you feel almost like you're floating, you snap over the top – and that feels good. I was all about the pace. I just wanted to bump people out and blast out middle poles."

After Sir Richard Hadlee, Shane Bond is arguably New Zealand's finest ever fast bowler. And he loved playing Australia. Source: Youtube.

Outside of the right-armer's searing pace, Ferguson seems like quite the character.

"[It's] each side. It's a serious face, and obviously a smiley face. I made sure I got the moustache in there nicely, so I was pretty happy," he said about a Black Caps uniform photo shoot in Australia, in a Facebook video.

He's got a wee way to go before he's in the Bond territory – here's hoping his back lasts a bit longer than Bondy's – but express pace is, at very least, back in Kiwi one-day colours.