Top 5 innings by a teenager in Test history

#3 Graeme Pollock 122 v Australia at Sydney, 19 years 317 days

Graeme Pollock

He was probably the finest left-handed batsman to have ever played the game and had it not been for the boycott, South African legend Graeme Pollock could have ended up as one of the game's true greats. He showed what he could do in the 23 Test matches that he played and the signs were quite apparent in his debut series in Australia in 1963-64.

Responding to Australia's 260 in the 1st innings of the third Test match at Sydney, South Africa found themselves in trouble at 58 for 2. That is when 19-year-old Graeme Pollock got together with captain and opening batsman Trevor Goddard to rescue the team and in the process, played one of the best Test innings by a teenager in history.

He played strokes all around the wicket and his impeccable timing must have made the bowlers realise that they were bowling to someone who was clearly a great batsman in the making. He made 122 and hit as many as 19 boundaries, along with a solitary six to help South Africa take the first innings lead. The match ended in a draw.