Shaun Pollock, South Africa’s leading Test and ODI wicket taker, will retire from international cricket on 3rd Feb. The recently completed Test match against the West Indies was his final Test and the ongoing ODI series will be his last ODI.
"If ever there is a bowler any young aspiring cricketer wants to emulate it is Shaun Pollock. South Africa should be proud to have had an athlete of his calibre. He was such a credit to world cricket it's unbelievable" Kapil Dev on polly's retirement.
Shaun Pollock has had many highlights and milestones in his career, he is South Africa’s leading Test wicket taker, with421 wickets at 23,11 with best figures of 7/87 and match figures of 10/147, both against Australia, has 2 Test hundreds, against Sri Lanka and the West Indies, and is unlucky not to have a third as he scored one against India and a match that lost its Test status after India fielded a banned player, his batting average of 32,31 with 16 fifties and the 2 hundreds, coupled with his bowling, makes him one of the leading Test all rounders of all time, his superb ODI bowling figures of 387 wickets at 24,54 in 298 games, at an unbelievable economy rate of 3,69, maintained over such a long period, has him down as the worlds best ODI bowler, and a batting average of 26,33 with 14 fifties and 1 hundred (scored for an Africa team against Asia, his highest score for South Africa is 90) puts him up with the best ODI all rounders of all time.
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