Prospective New Zealand bowler Shane Bond has been added to the New Zealand Cricket Academy team for its next three-day game against the Commonwealth Bank Cricket Academy of Australia at Lincoln Green starting tomorrow.

Bond's inclusion is not for the same reasons that the recuperating Chris Cairns was included in the first game which ended in a draw yesterday.

Rather it is a reflection that the New Zealand Academy has three bowlers out with injury and they need some back-up to bolster their attack.

Bond, who was a late replacement on the New Zealand A tour to India, made a big impression when bowling with genuine speed and has been placed on New Zealand's standby list for the CLEAR Black Caps tour of Australia.

Bond has been released from Christchurch commitments by Canterbury Cricket to play in the game. The Australian Academy had no objections when New Zealand Academy director Dayle Hadlee asked if they had any objection.

"The faster the better," they said of the prospect of facing Bond.

Hadlee told CricInfo that Greg Todd has a stress fracture in his tibia while Warren McSkimming and Brent Arnel both have back injuries.

"Chris was a great help to us in the first game and Shane will be good for the second game. It will also keep him ticking over in case he is required for Australia," he said.

Hadlee said he thought Cairns had come through his game with the Academy well and while the three days of the Australian game had been cold, he had not extended himself and had been careful.

"But in the Otago game last week, when he started bowling from his full run up he looked like the Cairns of old," he said.

Hadlee said the Academy bowlers' injuries were long-standing ones.

Nine of the players who arrived at the Academy at the start of the year came in with pre-existing conditions.

Some of those players have come right subsequently through surgery and rehabilitation.

But Hadlee said one of the problems in treating the players was that it took so long to get things sorted out through the Accident Compensation Commission.

"The wheels there turn very slowly," he said.

The situation has become so frustrating to the Academy that it has been decided before players are taken into the Academy programme they will have to fill out a medical and injury form, backed by their Association, before they are considered for a place.

Hadlee was concerned that because the injuries were being picked up through investigation processes at the Academy, the Academy was being blamed by the associations for causing the problems.

"We unearth things that have been happening for some time and which haven't been corrected.

"The Australian Academy guys tell me they get blamed for the same things.

"It is our job to assist in the rehabilitation of the players but we are doing a full review of our processes," he said.

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