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Graeme Pollock

Full Name
Robert Graeme Pollock
Born
27-02-1944 Durban, Natal, South Africa
Current Age
77 years old
Major Teams
South Africa
Batting Style
Left-hand bat
Bowling Style
Leg-break
Graeme Pollock

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Graeme Pollock Biography

Don Bradman clubbed the soaring genius of Garry Sobers, together with the broadsword of a bat wielded by Graeme Pollock. Those were the two best left-handers in the game according to the greatest batsman ever. When Pollock scored 122 in his very third Test at the age of 19, against Graham McKenzie and Richie Benaud, Bradman commented, “Next time you decide to play like that send me a telegram.”
 
Anyone who had watched Pollock make 274 at Durban against Bill Lawry’s Australians could vouch that Bradman’s cricketing judgement was as peerless as ever. It was an innings that made cricket lovers go dizzy with delight.
 
Sadly, Pollock could play just two more Test matches after that. The evils of apartheid paid the price of seclusion, and the brilliant cricket team was lost to the world forever.
 
In a Test career that ended at the age of 26, Pollock plundered 2256 runs in 23 Tests at 60.97 with seven hundreds. Among all the players with at least 20 Tests, Pollock’s average stands second only to Bradman’s 99.94.
 
The 20,940 runs in 262 First-Class matches at an average of 54 with 64 centuries provide some indication of what might have been. Pollock was no flash in the pan. He was touched by greatness, and the contact had been substantial.
 
One of the first batsmen to use a heavy bat, Pollock scored freely off good deliveries while punishing the bad. Standing upright at six feet two inches, he used his reach to perfection. The long right leg would go down to the pitch of the ball, and the mighty bat would come down on it — sending it screaming through the off-side. If it was a wee bit short, his excellent balance would help him transfer the weight onto his back foot and cut it away through point.
 
After the isolation, Pollock continued to play for Eastern Province and Transvaal, but unlike many of his countrymen did not opt for County cricket. His prodigious powers of hitting brought him the first double hundred ever scored in List A matches — a stunning 222 not out for Eastern Province against Border in the Gillette Cup in 1974-75.
 
Pollock went on to play 16 unofficial ‘Tests’ against rebel teams from England, Sri Lanka, West Indies and Australia. In these matches, without official sanction and limelight, he scored 1,376 runs at an average of 65.52.
 
Pollock retired in 1987 at the age of 42 after scoring 144 against an Australian rebel team. “It might have been Pollock at the age of 22 rather than 42,” wrote Michael Owen-Smith. When he reflected on his career after the match, he remarked, “I can see the justice of our cricket isolation now, though it was hard at the time.”
 
His class was permanent, the style, technique and panache did not desert him till his final day on the field. Neither did his qualities of fellow-feeling and humanity.
 
Arunabha Sengupta

Graeme Pollock Batting & Fielding Averages

Career M In R NO HS Avg BF SR 100s 50s 4s 6s Ct St
Test 23 41 2256 4 274 60.97 3264 69.11 7 11 312 11 17 0
ODIs 0 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
T20s 0 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
World Cup 0 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --

Graeme Pollock Bowling Averages

Career M B R W Avg EC SR 5WI 10WM BBI BBM
Test 23 414 204 4 51.00 2.956 103 0 0 2/50 2/50
ODIs 0 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
T20s 0 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
World Cup 0 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --

Graeme Pollock Career statistics

Test Debut

Australia v South Africa at Brisbane Cricket Ground, Woolloongabba, Brisbane, December 6, 1963

Last Test

South Africa v Australia at St George's Park, Port Elizabeth, March 5, 1970

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ICC Cricket Hall of Famers, Sunil Gavaskar and Graeme Pollock presented Indian captain Virat Kohli the mace after India clinched the ...

Graeme Pollock recalls scoring 125 against England at Trent Bridge

South Africa will arrive at Trent Bridge on Friday hoping their team can beat England in the second Test to level the four-match series ...

Graeme Pollock fears South Africa risk decline with their racial transformation policy

As of last August, Cricket South Africa defined the transformation policy as one where national teams should include on average and ...

Phil Hughes smashes List A double-ton: List of batsmen who have achieved same feat

Phil Hughes became the 15th batsman overall to achieve the feat.

Graeme Pollock unlikely to receive any kind of help from South Africa Cricketers’ Association

Graeme Pollock has gone bankrupt and is facing huge debt.

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    Peter Pollock, born on June 30, 1941, was one of the best fast bowlers to have played for South Africa.

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