Top 10 South African batsmen of all time

2 Graeme Pollock

Graeme Pollock

Sir Donald Bradman once said that Graeme Pollock was the greatest left-hand batsman that he had ever seen and added that he was of the same class as Gary Sobers.

However, South Africa’s isolation from cricket meant that Pollock could only play 23 Test matches in his career spanning around 6 years. His average of 60.97 is the highest among South African players, and the 3rd highest of all times for batsman who have played at least 20 Tests.

Pollock’s greatest gift was his timing and could hit boundaries with minimal effort. He scored 7 hundreds along with 11 fifties and his 274 against Australia at Durban in that famous series in 1969-70 stood as the record individual score for a South African for many years.