Top 5 number 4 South African batsmen of all time

#2 Graeme Pollock

A golden generation of South African cricketers' careers never reached the heights that they deserved due to the cricketing boycott that was placed on the nation and one of the most unfortunate cases was that of left-handed genius Graeme Pollock.

Sir Donald Bradman described him as being equal to Sir Garry Sobers and he is widely acknowledged as being one of the best left-handed batsmen to have ever played Test cricket. As a number 4, he was peerless.

Pollock could play a vast array of strokes and had the gift of timing the ball perfectly, that often left the opposition dumbstruck.

However, he could play only 23 Tests. Even in that handful of games, he showed his class and slammed 7 centuries and 11 half-centuries at a staggering average of 60.97. He made 2256 in total in 23 Tests.