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	South African cricket legend: Graeme Pollock (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Graeme Pollock, South African Cricket legend of the Century, retired as the second most successful Test Batsman ever with an average exceeding 60 runs.
		Graeme, as he was known, was voted South Africa's Cricketer of the Century in 1999, to no-one's surprise but his own.
		Graeme Pollock continued to play cricket until the 1986/87 season, ending his international career with a century, 144 against the rebel Australian team that toured South Africa during that year.
	nene.essortment.com /southafricancr_rqzp.htm (609 words)

	Graeme Pollock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Robert Graeme Pollock (born February 27, 1944, Durban, Natal) is one of South Africa's most famous cricketers.
		Graeme Pollock is one of the greatest left-handed batsmen the world has ever seen and was chosen as South Africa's Cricketer of the 20th Century in 2000.
		Pollock was an excellent judge of line and length and this enabled him to always get into the correct position to play any kind of delivery.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Graeme_Pollock (359 words)

	South Africa's Official Internet Gateway - Cricket: Shaun Pollock
		Pollock returned for the one-dayers, but he failed to live up to his high standards, only twice making good inroads into the visitors' batting when he took 4 for 32 in the second ODI and when he claimed 3 for 28 in the final match, the only victory the Proteas enjoyed in a tough summer.
		Pollock was relatively quiet in the first Test victory in Durban, but his performance in Cape Town included a swashbuckling 36 off only 19 deliveries with the bat, and 4 for 45 with the ball in Pakistan's first innings.
		With Pollock to the fore, both as a leader, as one of the world’s leading fast bowlers, and as an underrated batsman, South Africa is in a position to continue challenging Australia as the world’s leading test-playing nation and to add further credence to their claim to be the world’s top limited overs team.
	www.safrica.info /what_happening/sports/cricket_wc/pollocks.htm (1479 words)

	CRICKETNEXT.COM NEWS :::Trial by fire for Smith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Wet-behind-the-ears Graeme Smith, not even in the original squad for the mega event and drafted in as a replacement when Jonty Rhodes got injured, has been surprisingly chosen as the man to lead the team's destiny for the time being at least.
		The sacking of Graeme Pollock, who one always thought as a reactive captain rather than a proactive one, was expected after the team's debacle in the event in which they are the main hosts.
		Pollock himself has gone on record to say he was not allowed to function independently as captain which looks suspiciously like a case of sour grapes.
	www.cricketnext.com /features1/swamy/swamy81.htm (538 words)

	Cricket: Graeme Pollock - SouthAfrica.info
		Graeme Pollock was voted South Africa’s Cricketer of the Century in 2000, and no one who saw him play would dispute the honour.
		Sadly, Pollock was to play only one more test series before a ban on South Africa ended his international career, but in that series he played for a team that many regard as the best South African team of all time.
		Considering that Pollock was just 26 years of age when his test career was brought to a premature end, it is a reasonable to infer that he would have improved his average.
	www.safrica.info /ess_info/sa_glance/sports/pollockg.htm (1174 words)

	Pollock: Smith too young
		Pollock also said it was time to repair the damage done to the image of South African cricket.
		Pollock, who was named South Africa's Player of the Century in 2000, warned against over-hasty changes to the national team merely to give players of colour an opportunity.
		Pollock also criticised South Africa's World Cup team, which failed to qualify for the Super Six phase of the tournament earlier this year, saying it had been a lot weaker than the one which reached the semi-finals of the previous tournament in 1999.
	www.news24.com /News24/AnanziArticle/0,,2-9-839_1348280,00.html (429 words)

	Shaun Pollock - The South African Sun : Cricketfundas.com
		In fact, this pace duo of Donald and Pollock was rated one of the game’s most fiercest and finest bowling pair of all time.
		Pollock has got more than 300 wickets; not by any means an easy feat considering the fact that not many South Africa bowlers have managed it (only Allan Donald other than Pollock), and approaching the landmark of 300 wkts (also 297 ODI wkts in 214 games).
		He inherited the traits of both his uncle and dad; his father Peter Pollock, known for his aggressive fast bowling (a whopping 116 wickets in just the 28 tests he played!) and his uncle is the game’s finest ever left handed batsman, averaging 60 plus in the few tests he played.
	www.cricketfundas.com /pollockprofile.html (1020 words)

	Cricket Hall of Fame: Sir Garfield Sobers and Graeme Pollock
		Pollock was known for his timing, placing and the ease in which he batted but could also put all of his 6ft2 frame into a shot.
		Pollock failed in the one off test against New Zealand but was back to his best in the second half of the test series against England the next season.
		Pollock’s next two series, both against Australia were to be his best scoring over 500 runs in each one.
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	sport.iafrica.com \| today's news Pollock happy with new role
		South Africa's Shaun Pollock said on Wednesday he was enjoying his new role as a motivator after being dumped as captain in March.
		His uncle Graeme Pollock was a great batsman, and his father Peter Pollock was South Africa's finest bowler in the 1960s.
		Pollock said he accepted the change after his side failed to progress beyond the first round in this year's World Cup, with his country as one of three host countries.
	sport.iafrica.com /news/278293.htm (507 words)

	CNNSI.com - Cricket - S. Africa names Pollock cricketer of century - Sunday January 02, 2000 02:20 PM
		Posted: Sunday January 02, 2000 02:20 PM Graeme Pollock scored 2,256 runs, including his all-time high of 274 against Australia in 1970.
		CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) -- Graeme Pollock, whose test average of 60.97 runs is second only to Australia's Donald Bradman, was announced as South Africa's cricketer of the century Sunday.
		Pollock, who played in only 23 tests before South Africa's sporting isolation in 1970 due to apartheid, scored 2,256 runs, including his all-time high of 274 against Australia Feb. 5-9, 1970, in Durban.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /cricket/news/2000/01/02/graemepollock_award_ap (504 words)

	Sunday Times - South Africa's best selling newspaper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Graeme Pollock and Barry Richards, South Africa's greatest living batsmen, yesterday joined the chorus of praise for Graeme Smith, whose feats in the first two Tests against England have invited comparisons with Don Bradman.
		Pollock and Richards were both at Lord's when Smith became the first South African to score double centuries in two successive Test matches.
		Pollock scored two Test centuries against Australia when he was 19 and at 21 played one of the most memorable innings of all time when he hit a dazzling 125 against England at Trent Bridge in 1965.
	www.sundaytimes.co.za /2003/08/03/sport/cricket/cricket02.asp (936 words)

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		His father is Peter Pollock, one of South Africa's great fast bowlers and former chairman of selectors.
		His uncle is Graeme Pollock, arguably the finest left-handed batsman ever, and the man with the second highest test batting average after Australian great Donald Bradman.
		Graeme Pollock doesn't have any concerns about his nephew's captaincy.
	www.dispatch.co.za /2003/02/27/sport/BARE.HTM (575 words)

	Pollocks in the spotlight (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		That's why Shaun Pollock will do his utmost over the next five days to have his name added to that of father Peter and uncle Graeme on the roll of honour at the ground.
		Graeme's superlative innings of 125, regarded by many experts as one of the greatest Test innings ever, and Peter's match analysis of 10 wickets for 87 runs (5-53 and 5-34) were largely responsible for South Africa achieving the only victory in the series.
		As part of the 50th Test celebrations at the venue, Graeme Pollock and other greats of the game have been invited to attend as guests of honour, and nothing will give South Africa's cricketer of the previous century more pleasure than to see his nephew bowl himself into the history books.
	www.news24.com /News24/AnanziArticle/0,,2-9-839_1401782,00.html (454 words)

	BBC SPORT \| AUSTRALIA V SOUTH AFRICA \| Pollock blasts nephew's team
		South Africa's senior selector Graeme Pollock has revealed he had sharp words with his nephew's team as they succumbed meekly against Australia in the first Test.
		Pollock said that during the lunch break on Monday he advised spinner Claude Henderson to bowl around the wicket.
		Shaun Pollock kept Nantie Hayward out of the attack for three hours while Australia's Matthew Hayden and Mark Waugh were well putting on 181 runs for the third wicket.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/hi/cricket/specials/australia_v_south_africa/1717046.stm (483 words)

	South African cricket in 2003 - SouthAfrica.info
		Pollock and Ntini picked up four wickets each in the first innings and Ntini followed that up with a second four-wicket haul in the second innings.
		Pollock's effort against Pakistan in the first one-day international against Pakistan in Durban was brilliant and it stopped the Pakistanis mounting a challenge to the Proteas.
		Pollock then knocked over three for 12 in a ball less than 10 overs and Nicky Boje claimed three for 29 as the Proteas dismissed Pakistan for only 140 to record a huge victory.
	www.southafrica.info /ess_info/sa_glance/sports/features/sa_cricket_2003.htm (3349 words)

	SuperCricket
		Pollock and Fleming, firm friends, stood to one side, conversing, when the fifth ODI in Auckland was delayed by rain.
		Pollock says he thinks "South African bowlers are getting the stick unnecessarily about the Proteas' poor performance." Smith and Eric Simons, the coach, took the bowlers to task following the ODI series defeat.
		Even though Pollock got a wicket only at the end of the series, he kept the pressure on with his economical bowling, but he didn't get a lot of help from the other bowlers.
	www.supercricket.co.za /?id=108227&des=article&scat= (562 words)

	sundaytimes.co.za :: Home of the Sunday Times :: South Africa's best selling newspaper :: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Pollock probably had a greater desire to occupy the crease, Barry was the most dominant, while Jacques has the technical ability of Richards and the patience of Pollock.
		For this writer, who was fortunate enough to have seen many innings by both Richards and Pollock during their prime, they will forever remain in the mind as two of the supreme cricketing entertainers of all time.
		Pollock, with the wisdom and discretion of experience, went on to make 274, the South African Test record until it was beaten by Daryll Cullinan against New Zealand 29 years later.
	www.sundaytimes.co.za /Articles/TarkArticle.aspx?ID=1677867 (1141 words)

	Castle Lager Cricket (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Shaun's father, Peter Pollock, was a wonderful fast bowler who played for his country, and his uncle Graeme Pollock, was one of the best batsmen ever to play the game.
		Pollock made his full Test debut against the English tourists in a rain-affected match at Centurion in the 1995/96 season.
		It took Pollock a long time to score his first Test century, but when he did, against Sri Lanka last season, the second followed quickly in the West Indies a few months later.
	www.castlelager.co.za /SABIIS/Sport/Cricket/Cricket_PlayerProfile/Cricket_PlayerProfile_Archive/default1.htm (453 words)

	Castle Lager Cricket (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		South African captain Shaun Pollock has called for his country's policy on selection of fl and mixed-race players in the national cricket team to be clarified.
		Former test cricketers Graeme Pollock, Fanie de Villiers, Ray Jennings and Pat Symcox have also been critical of Sonn's intervention.
		Pollock insisted the controversy had not affected his team's on-field performance but described it as "not ideal."
	www.castlelager.co.za /SABIIS/News/Sport_News/Sport_Cricket_News/Sport_Cricket_News_Archive/Cricket_News_2c.htm?archived=1&pid=43 (523 words)

	SABCnews.com - sport/cricket (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Graeme Pollock, South African batting great and senior selector has had an angry behind-the-scenes exchange with his nephew's team as they crashed to defeat against Australia.
		Pollock, travelling with the team as a selector, voiced his disapproval after Australia amassed an unbeatable 375-run lead yesterday, the fourth day before reducing South Africa to 17/2 by stumps.
		Graeme Pollock said there were angry words during the tea break, saying on radio: "A hard word was needed to try and save this game." Pollock added that he had given the South African team a wide berth on the final day.
	www.sabcnews.com /sport/cricket/0,2172,25427,00.html (502 words)

	Online edition of Daily News - Sports (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Pollock said Ontong's inclusion late on the eve of the third Test had not affected his team's on-field performance in the first series clean sweep against Australia in 70 years.
		Pollock said Ontong, who made scores of nine and 32 against Australia, was a good prospect for South African cricket.
		Sonn late Sunday inflamed the Proteas camp by hinting that coach Graham Ford and selector Graeme Pollock should face disciplinary action.
	www.dailynews.lk /2002/01/08/spo17.html (734 words)

	espnstar.com-powered by ESPN STAR Sports: Studio - Latest Column Dasey Direct
		Pollock knows all about the challenges of captaincy -— taking over a South African team traumatized by the Hansie Cronje match-fixing scandal -— and then sacked after a heart-breaking 2003 World Cup.
		We spoke about Pollock's Christian beliefs, his thoughts about playing beyond the 2007 World Cup, his on-going respect for his late mentor Malcolm Marshall and his desire to join Indian legend Kapil Dev as the only player with 4000 Test runs and 400 Test wickets.
		I think Graeme is doing a good job at the moment and I don't think they'd be any reason to change.
	www.espnstar.com /studio/studio_coldetail_1433184.html (1687 words)

	sport.iafrica.com \| today's news Pollock upholds family tradition
		Shaun Pollock was a proud man on Sunday after becoming the latest member of his family to have his name inscribed on the Trent Bridge honours board — but his joy could be short-lived as South Africa battle to save the Third Test.
		Paceman Pollock's return of six for 39 on the fourth day against England saw him join father Peter and uncle Graeme on the ground's role of honour.
		The Pollock brothers secured their places in Trent Bridge history during South Africa's test series clinching victory here in 1965, the tourists taking the three-match campaign 1-0.
	sport.iafrica.com /news/263428.htm (699 words)

	Columns - Smith impresses in deed and word : HTCricket.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		It's not quite true that Graeme Smith became South Africa captain because he was untainted by the Hansie Cronje scandal, but it's not totally untrue either.
		Pollock, one of the all-time greats, hit two double centuries and averaged 60.97 in 23 tests, second only to Don Bradman's 99.94.
		Eddie Barlow was the previous South African quickest, in 21 innings, one quicker than Graeme Pollock.
	www.hindustantimes.com /htcricket/74_000100040007,323197.htm (756 words)

	The Denness bombshell
		The one on the right, as one enters the school, has been named the 'Graeme Pollock Field'.
		A bench made in stone is in place, the width of which is the size of Pollock's shoulders and the length, his height.
		Then he won a decision against Venkatsai Laxman; this time the batsman appeared to be plumb in front, but Pollock got the decision only after he continued to appeal for a length of time.
	www.sportstaronnet.com /tss2448/24480250.htm (1204 words)

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		That is good news for everyone, since records are made to be broken and sport is all about change, the excitement of finding new talent, the hope that one day in the future some greater feat of arms will overtake every breathtaking moment.
		Viv Richards, known as the Master Blaster and blessed with eyesight that could pick out a friend in the crowd from 100 yards, with fast hands and feet and the strength of a boxer, scored a Test hundred in 56 balls — on his home ground of Antigua too — that is still a record.
		Another left-handed South African Graeme Pollock, whose stance and style have been compared to Smith's, made 125 out of 160 and hit 21 fours in two hours and 20 minutes of the Nottingham Test of 1965.
	www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/thscrip/print.pl?file=20030816003400800.htm&date=tss2633/&prd=tss& (1565 words)

	PCB Warning to 'Flop' Players; Smith Relaces Shaun Pollock as Skipper; Imran Tips India to Dethrone Australia ; Wake Up ...
		Pollock told reporters on Sunday he was sacked not for his team's debacle in the World Cup but because his style of leadership clashed with the curbs imposed on the captain since Hansie Cronje's fall from grace.
		Pollock felt his sacking did not have much to do with his team's ouster from the World Cup.
		Pollock also said he did not want to relieve captaincy but promised full support to his successor.
	www.indiatraveltimes.com /sports/cup_mar03_3.html (2397 words)

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