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Shaun Pollock
South Africa
Personal information
Full name Shaun Maclean Pollock
Born July 16, 1973 (1973-07-16) (age 34)
Port Elizabeth, Cape Province, South Africa
Role All-rounder
Batting style Right-handed
Bowling style Right arm fast-medium
International information
Test debut (cap 261) November 16, 1995: v England
Last Test January 22, 2007: v Pakistan
ODI debut (cap 39) January 9, 1996: v England
Last ODI August 26, 2007:  v Zimbabwe
ODI shirt no. 7
Domestic team information
Years Team
1992/93-2003/04 KwaZulu-Natal
1996-2002 Warwickshire
2004/05 Dolphins
Career statistics
Tests ODIs FC LA
Matches 107 290 183 420
Runs scored 3781 3279 6950 5203
Batting average 32.31 26.02 33.09 26.27
100s/50s 2/16 1/12 6/34 3/22
Top score 111 130 150* 134*
Balls bowled 24185 14962 38521 20748
Wickets 416 383 656 563
Bowling average 23.19 24.15 23.35 22.50
5 wickets in innings 16 5 22 7
10 wickets in match 1 n/a 2 n/a
Best bowling 7/87 6/35 7/33 6/21
Catches/stumpings 72/- 107/- 129/- 152/-

As of September 1, 2007
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Shaun Maclean Pollock (born July 16, 1973 in Port Elizabeth) is a South African cricketer who is considered a bowling all-rounder. From 2000 to 2003 he was the captain of the South African cricket team. He was also chosen as the Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 2003. is the 197th day of the year (198th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... For the song by James Blunt, see 1973 (song). ... Port Elizabeth is a city in South Africa, situated in the Eastern Cape Province, at 33°58′ S 25°36′ E. The city is located on Algoa Bay, and is one of the major seaports in South Africa. ... A cricketer is a term used to refer to a person who plays cricket. ... An all-rounder is a cricket player who excels at both batting and bowling. ... Year 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full 2000 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Wisden is the main publisher of information on cricket in the United Kingdom. ...

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Cricketer

Shaun Pollock is a medium-fast seam bowler, with the ability to deliver a quicker ball with accuracy and swing. He is considered to be one of the straightest bowlers in world cricket.[citation needed]


The nephew of legendary South African cricketer Graeme Pollock and the son of former South African fast bowler, Peter Pollock, expectations from him have been high since he started playing for South Africa in 1995/96, in their home series against England.[citation needed] He cemented his place in the team with some excellent performances and found a steady bowling partner in Allan Donald. They were to be the mainstay of South African bowling till Donald's retirement. Robert Graeme Pollock (born February 27, 1944, Durban, Natal) is one of South Africas most famous cricketers. ... Peter Maclean Pollock, (born June 30, 1941, Pietermaritzburg, Natal) has played an ongoing rule in the South Africa cricket team as a player, selector and father to a future captain. ... Allan Anthony Donald, (born October 20, 1966, Bloemfontein) was a South African cricketer, and one of their most successful pace bowlers ever. ...


Pollock is also a very useful hard-hitting batsman who normally bats at 7 or 8, with a Test average of over 30 and ODI average above 20. There have been many occasions when Pollock saved the day for South Africa by stringing together important lower order partnerships. In fact, most critics would say that he has not fulfilled his true potential as a batsman.[citation needed] He is also an athletic fielder.[citation needed]


After Hansie Cronje was banned from cricket for life, Pollock took over the captaincy in April 2000. He had the task of boosting the morale of the team in the aftermath of the match-fixing scandal. After getting off to a good start as a captain he faced some disappointing series losses in his tenure. He was eventually removed from the captaincy after South Africa's poor performance in the 2003 Cricket World Cup, a tournament that they were amongst the favourites to win as the host nation. Graeme Smith took over the captaincy from him. Wessel Johannes Hansie Cronje (September 25, 1969 - June 1, 2002) was a South African cricketer (all-rounder) and captain of the South African national cricket team in the 1990s. ... Graeme Craig Smith (born 1 February 1981 in Johannesburg) is a cricketer who became the youngest ever player to captain the South African cricket team at the age of 22 years when he was selected to take over from Shaun Pollock after the 2003 Cricket World Cup. ...


Although no longer captain, he retained his place in the team. Of late, especially after a disappointing Test series tour of Australia in 2005/2006, he has been facing criticism for losing his wicket taking ability, even though he still maintains his. He has the lowest economy rate of any bowler to have taken 300 ODI wickets.[1] He is also the first South African and only the tenth player to take 400 Test wickets. However, minor injuries have hampered his most recent performances.[citation needed]


Besides South Africa, Pollock has also played for Africa XI, World XI, Dolphins and Warwickshire.


Career highlights

Pollock took four wickets in four balls on his first appearance for Warwickshire - in a limited-overs (B&H Cup) game v Leicestershire at Birmingham in 1996. He also recently received the SA Player's Player award and the SA ODI Player of the Year Award.[citation needed]


He is currently tenth on the all time Test Wicket takers list, and was named 12th in the all time best ever bowler ratings in the LG ICC Ratings.[citation needed] He has taken over 400 wickets and is one of only six players to have scored 3000 runs and taken 300 wickets in Test matches. LG can refer to a number of things: LG Group, a South Korean electronics and petrochemicals conglomerate. ...


He has also preformed impressivle in One Day Internationals, consistently from 1997 to 2001. The year 2002 saw a little performance dip after which he performed excellently up until 2005 after which there was a second dip.[citation needed] Many said[attribution needed] that Pollock would not recover from this but he did, in fact he reached his career-best LG ICC Bowling Rating of 920 in February 2006 and it despite slight variation it remains at 920.[citation needed] He now holds the 3rd highest rating ever, 3 points behind the New Zealand bowler Richard Hadlee. ODI Matches (One Day International) are played in the game of cricket. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Sir Richard John Hadlee MBE (born July 3, 1951) is a former New Zealand cricketer. ...


In June 2007 he represented an Africa XI in an ODI game against an Asia XI in Bangalore. Playing as a specialist batsman, Pollock scored 130 from number 7 in the batting order, the highest ever score by an ODI batsman in that position.[2] The record would however not last long, MS Dhoni bettered it later in the series. A One-day International (ODI) cricket match is a one-day cricket match played between two international teams each representing a particular country. ... For other uses, see Bangalore (disambiguation). ... Mahendra Singh (MS) Dhoni (born July 7, 1981 in Ranchi, Jharkhand) is an Indian cricketer. ...


Rankings

Shaun Pollock's current ranking and (rating) in the Cricket ratings as determined by the International Cricket Council are as follows: The LG ICC cricket ratings are a widely followed system of rankings for international cricketers based on their recent performances. ... ICC logo The International Cricket Council (ICC) is the governing body for international Test match and One-day International cricket. ...

  • Pollock has never gone below the number 2 position for bowlers in the ICC ratings in ODI cricket since 1998
  • Test Batting 48th (488) - career best 37th (565).
  • Test Bowling 4th (730) - career best 1st (909).
  • Test All-rounders 3rd (356) - career best 1st (489).
  • ODI Batting 52nd (525) - career best 34th (589).
  • ODI Bowling 1st (920) - career best 1st (920)
  • ODI All-rounders 1st (483) - career best 1st (483).

Personal life

Pollock comes from a family of mainly Scottish ancestry. His paternal grandfather, Andrew Pollock, who played for Orange Free State, was born in Edinburgh.[3] He is married to Patricia "Trish" Lauderdale and has two daughters, Jemma and Georgia. Jemma was born in August 2003, and Georgia in July 2006. Lauderdale was a finalist in the Miss South Africa pageant in the early '90s and also worked for MTN, a South African telecom company.[4]


References

  1. ^ Records - One-Day Internationals - Most wickets in career. Cricinfo. Retrieved on 2007-09-01.
  2. ^ Records - One-Day Internationals - Most runs in an innings (by batting position). Cricinfo. Retrieved on 2007-09-01.
  3. ^ Players and Officials - Andrew Pollock. Cricinfo. Retrieved on 2007-09-01.
  4. ^ Pollock in doubt for Sri Lanka. News24.com (2006-06-08). Retrieved on 2007-09-01.

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Preceded by
Hansie Cronje		 South African Test cricket captain
2000/1 - 2001/2		 Succeeded by
Mark Boucher
Preceded by
Mark Boucher		 South African Test cricket captain
2001/2 - 2002/3		 Succeeded by
Graeme Smith
Preceded by
Hansie Cronje		 South African ODI cricket captain
2000 - 2005		 Succeeded by
Graeme Smith

  Results from FactBites:
 
Cricket: Shaun Pollock - SouthAfrica.info (2604 words)
Pollock first came to the fore in 1995 after a superb series of performances in domestic cricket for the Natal Dolphins during which he not only took many wickets, but also gained something of a reputation for hitting batsmen.
Pollock returned for the one-dayers, but 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 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 19 deliveries with the bat, and 4 for 45 with the ball in Pakistan's first innings.
Cricinfo - Players and Officials - Shaun Pollock (1121 words)
Shaun has bits of both in his makeup, but it is as an immaculate, Hadlee-esque, line and length seamer that he has established himself.
Pollock was thrust into the captaincy in April 2000 when Hansie Cronje was drummed out of the game, and he faced the biggest challenge of his career - to lift a shocked and demoralised South African side.
Pollock missed the first Test against Australia at home in early 2006 with a back injury and was relegated from opener to first-change by the third.
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