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Robert Graeme Pollock (born 27 February 1944 in Durban, Natal Province, Union of South Africa) is a former cricketer for South Africa, Transvaal and Eastern Province. A member of a famous cricketing family,〔 Pollock is widely regarded as South Africa's greatest cricketer, and as one of the finest batsmen to have played Test cricket.〔〔 Despite Pollock's international career being cut short at the age of 26 by the sporting boycott of South Africa, and all but one of his 23 Test matches being against England and Australia, the leading cricket nations of the day,〔 he broke a number of records. His completed career Test match batting average of 60.97 remains second only to Sir Donald Bradman.〔(Test match batting averages (over 20 innings) ), Cricinfo. Retrieved on 4 November 2008.〕 Pollock has been the recipient of numerous awards and accolades, including being voted in 1999 as South Africa's ''Cricketer of the 20th Century'',〔 one of Wisden's Cricketers of the Year in 1966,〔 as well as being retrospectively selected in 2007 as the Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World in 1967 and 1969. In South Africa he was player of the year in 1961 and 1984, with special tributes in the S.A. Cricket annuals of 1977 and 1987. Bradman described Pollock, along with Sir Garfield Sobers, as the best left-handed batsman he had ever seen play cricket.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Player Profile: Graeme Pollock )〕 ==Youth and early career== Pollock was born into a Scottish family in Durban in 1944. His grandfather was a Presbyterian minister,〔 and his father, Andrew, was a former first-class cricketer with Orange Free State and the editor of the ''Port Elizabeth Herald''.〔 As a youth, Pollock earned the nickname ''Little Dog'':〔Hayter (1970), pp. 52–65〕
Pollock attended Grey High School—a noted sporting school in Port Elizabeth—where he was coached by Sussex professional George Cox.〔 In his first match for Grey Junior, aged 9, he took all ten wickets before scoring 117 not out.〔 At one stage, he hit a six into a neighbouring cemetery and had to fetch the ball himself.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Grey High School – Sports Legends )〕 He was selected for his first match for the school First XI as a leg spinner, taking six wickets for five runs.〔 At 15, Pollock was selected to represent South Africa schoolboys.〔 In 1960, aged 16 and still attending Grey High School, Pollock was chosen to appear for Eastern Province. His first-class cricket debut was against Border at the Jan Smuts Ground in East London, where he made 54 runs before being run out. He then went on to take two wickets in Border's second innings.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Border v Eastern Province : Currie Cup 1960/61 )〕 Later that season he scored his maiden first-class century, scoring 102 against Transvaal B, becoming the youngest South African to score a first-class century.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Transvaal B v Eastern Province: Currie Cup 1960/61 )〕 Pollock played five matches for EP in his debut season, scoring 384 runs at an average of 48.00.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=First-class Batting and Fielding in Each Season by Graeme Pollock )〕 In 1961, while visiting Britain with his parents, he played six matches with the Sussex Second XI.〔 In the 1962–63 South African season, Pollock finished second in the averages, scoring 839 runs including three centuries at an average of 69.66.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=First-class Batting and Fielding in South Africa for 1962/63 (Ordered by Average) )〕 The highlight of his season was scoring 209 not out for an Eastern Province Invitational XI against the International Cavaliers, which included bowlers such as Richie Benaud and Graham McKenzie.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Eastern Province Invitation XI v International Cavaliers: International Cavaliers in South Africa 1962/63 )〕 Benaud was to describe the innings as "magnificent", later saying "I knew I was watching a champion."〔Benaud (2005), p. 114.〕 Aged 19, Pollock was the youngest South African to score a double-century in first-class cricket.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Graeme Pollock」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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