Graeme Pollock

So the memorial stand where the St. George's Park Band play at the other end of it.

Between that and the Graham Pollock Pavilion, and noting they don't name stands after players too often in...

South Africa at all.

It's a rarity.

But Graham Pollock has that honour here at PE.

But there wasn't much room to work with.

It's kind of like a snap on a 45-degree angle that's gone in through the big sticks and didn't keep going.

It's a beautiful ground.

The pavilion named after Graham Pollock.

You'd love it, Whitey.

The grass bank on one side.

I was lucky in the sense that, well, when I was growing up in Loughborough, um, we used to go to Grace Road, watch Leicestershire, used to go to Trent Bridge, watch Notts and what was going on.

My first test match actually was watching Graeme Pollock, who was a bit of a hero too, get a hundred.

But Sobers, in his days at Notts, you know, if you went up there, even, even if you saw him make 20 or 30, it was just the way he played, just that sort of, uh, oh, I mean, sort of supreme ability.

You know, everything about Gary was just awesome.

So my young career was against what was called the Mean Machine.

I bowled a lot against Jimmy Cook, Henry Fotheringham, Graham Pollock, Clive Rice.

That era was tough for me because I was a young cricketer.

I was holding on by the skin of my teeth trying to understand this game and trying to be effective.

Mm

... your uncle, the great Graeme Pollock, one of the greatest batsmen of all time.

But obviously, your father, Peter, was, uh, a great fast bowler who batted well for South Africa as well.

Um-

over the photo with the beer in hand of Andrew McLeod, which was posted by Patrick Key from the AFL, which was unusual.

Now, Graham Pollock, the great Graham Pollock, left-hander, averaged 60 in 22

tears.

Wow.

It's a good guess, but it's not Pollock because how do you get a singer out of Pollock and how do you get a university degree out of Pollock? So I'm not even going to tell you if the sport is correct or not.

It was a decent guess because, of course, Sean Pollock has played for South Africa and his uncle Peter Pollock has...

I beg your pardon, his uncle Graham Pollock has played for South Africa and indeed his father, Peter Pollock, has played for South Africa as well.

So there are three Pollocks who have played for South Africa, but I'm not looking for the surname Pollock.

It's something else.