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Full name Peter Maclean Pollock
Born June 30, 1941, Pietermaritzburg, Natal
Current age 67 years 26 days
Major teams South Africa,Eastern Province
Also known as Pooch
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm fast
Relations Father - AM Pollock,Uncle - R Howden,Brother - RG Pollock,Son - SM Pollock,Nephew - AG Pollock,Nephew - GA Pollock
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
100
50
6s
Ct
St
Tests
28
41
13
607
75*
21.67
0
2
1
9
0
First-class
127
177
43
3028
79
22.59
0
12
54
0
List A
8
8
2
176
42*
29.33
0
0
4
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
Tests
28
52
6522
2806
116
6/38
10/87
24.18
2.58
56.2
1
9
1
First-class
127
19064
10620
485
7/19
21.89
3.34
39.3
27
2
List A
8
496
276
18
5/51
5/51
15.33
3.33
27.5
1
1
0
Career statistics
Test debut
South Africa v New Zealand at Durban, Dec 8-12, 1961 scorecard
Last Test
South Africa v Australia at Port Elizabeth, Mar 5-10, 1970 scorecard
Test statistics
First-class span
1958/59 - 1971/72
List A span
1969/70 - 1971/72
Profile
South African cricket's debt to Peter Pollock is threefold: as the country's
premier fast bowler during the 1960s, the last decade before South Africa's
international isolation; as convener of selectors during the 1990s, when he
gave an inexperienced team a vision and pattern (unsurprisingly based on
disciplined and relentless seam bowling) that has made the side one of the
game's top two teams; and as Shaun Pollock's father he played a not
insignificant role in providing South Africa with a Test captain and one of the world's leading allrounders.
The older Pollock brother ("Pooch" to Graeme's "Little Dog") learned his
trade bowling to one of cricket's greatest batsmen in the backyard of their
Port Elizabeth home. Something of a tearaway as a young bowler, Pollock
never really lost his killer instinct even as age and dodgy knees began to
take their toll. He formed a productive partnership with the Rhodesian swing
bowler Joe Partridge in Australia in 1963-64 which enabled South Africa
unexpectedly to draw the series 2-2, and another at the end of the decade
with a youthful Mike Procter as Australia were beaten 3-1 and 4-0 in
successive home series.
For the Pollock brothers, though, few moments in their careers eclipsed
the 1965 Trent Bridge Test, when Peter took 5 for 53 and 5 for 34 and Graeme made 125 and 59 as South Africa won by 94 runs, a victory that enabled them to
take the three-Test series 1-0. Peter took 116 wickets in 28 Tests at 24.18
and also made two fifties to average 21.67 as a handy lower-order batsman. A
trained journalist, Peter is a lay preacher, and there are few more
astute (or single-minded) judges in the game.
Peter Robinson
