The Special All-rounders’ Club – 500 runs and 50 wickets in a calendar year

#3 Shaun Pollock (South Africa)

Given Pollock’s potential with the bat, he could be dubbed one of the greatest underachievers in batting. The man who scored 3781 runs at 32.31 and picked up 421 wickets in Tests, was a genuine all-rounder who didn’t think much of batting.

He had two great years with the bat though, in 1998 and 2001 when he scored 593 and 573 runs at 29.65 and then a whopping 52.09 respectively. He picked up 69 and 55 wickets respectively with the ball in those two years. Pollock even managed couple of centuries in 2001 along with five not-outs, one of them an unbeaten century.