Graeme Pollock

Robert Graeme Pollock (born February 27, 1944) played cricket for the Transvaal and Eastern Provinces of South Africa. Pollock, a member of a well-known cricketing family, is widely regarded as one of South Africa's greatest ever cricketers and one of the best Test batsman ever. Despite the fact that Pollock's international career was cut short at the age of 26 due to the sporting boycott of South Africa, and despite the fact that all but one of his 23 Test matches were against England and Australia, the two most powerful cricketing nations at the time, he set a number of records. After Sir Donald Bradman's (99.94), Steve Smith's, and Adam Voges' averages, his career Test match batting average of 60.97 ranks fourth.

Pollock has received various honours and distinctions, including being named South Africa's Cricketer of the Century in 1999, one of Wisden's Cricketers of the Year in 1966, and being named the Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World in 1967 and 1969 retroactively in 2007. In South Africa, he was named player of the year in 1961 and 1984, with special mentions in the 1977 and 1987 S.A. Cricket annuals. Pollock, along with Sir Garfield Sobers, was hailed by Bradman as the best left-handed batsman he had ever seen play cricket.

Pollock was elected into the International Cricket Council's Hall of Fame in 2009.

Full name: Robert Graeme Pollock

Born: 27 February 1944, Durban, Natal Province, Union of South Africa

Height: 1.88m