Pollock completes 300 Test wickets by Rajesh Kumar

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Player:

SM Pollock

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Shaun Pollock, playing in his 74th Test, achieved a personal landmark when he claimed Michael Vaughan's wicket in England's first innings at The Oval on Friday and became the second South African after Allan Donald (330 in 72) and the 19th in the world to have taken 300 or more wickets.

Pollock's bowling average of 20.71 is the best amongst the bowlers with 300 or more wickets in Test Cricket. Two West Indians - Malcolm Marshall (20.95) and Curtly Ambrose (20.99) are the next best.

Pollock is now the seventh all-rounder in the history of Test Cricket to have completed 300 or more wickets and aggregated 2000 or more runs, joining Ian Botham (England) Imran Khan (Pakistan), Richard Hadlee (NZ), Kapil Dev (India), Wasim Akram (Pakistan) and Shane Warne (Australia).

Pollock's country-wise bowling, batting and fielding Test record as on September 9, 2003 is as under:

Country-wise Bowling Test Record:

Opponents  T  Balls Md. Runs Wkts. Ave. Best 5WI 10WM S.R.
Pakistan   8  1483  67   600   29 20.69 6/50  2   -  51.14
India      7  1559  84   590   35 16.86 6/56  2   1  44.54
Australia  8  1824  75   774   28 27.64 7/87  1   -  65.14
Bangladesh 3   372  21   139    9 15.44 2/12  -   -  41.33
England   18  4386 242  1657   70 23.67 6/39  3   -  62.66
N.Zealand  6  1461  96   449   25 17.96 5/33  1   -  58.44
Sri Lanka 10  1833  99   766   37 20.70 6/30  1   -  49.54
W.Indies  10  2553 121   947   49 19.33 5/28  4   -  52.10
Zimbabwe   4   939  53   333   20 16.65 5/39  1   -  46.95
  Total:  74 16410 858  6255  302 20.71 7/87 15   1  54.34
 
   Home:  39  7883 397  3108  160 19.43 6/30  9   1  49.27
   Away:  35  8527 461  3147  142 22.16 7/87  6   -  60.05

Pollock's frequent victims: Pollock's mode of dismissals:

N.Hussain (Eng)   - 8 times     Bowled:               43
M.S.Atapattu (SL) - 7 times     Caught by fielders:  123
M.A.Butcher (Eng) - 7 times     Caught by w.keepers:  70
M.A.Atherton(Eng) - 6 times     Caught & Bowled:       7
D.Ganga (WI)      - 6 times     LBW:                  59
S.C.Ganguly (Ind) - 6 times
A.J.Stewart (Eng) - 6 times      
                                         Total:      302

Country-wise batting Test record:

Opponents     T   I  N.O. Runs  H.S.  Ave. 100  50  0  Ct.
New Zealand   6   4   2    170   69* 85.00  -   1   -  4
West Indies  10  18   6    450  106* 37.50  1   -   -  6
Australia     8  15   4    278   61* 25.27  -   1   2  5
England      18  24   6    598   66* 33.22  -   4   1 14 
India         7  12   3    209   79  23.22  -   2   3  4
Pakistan      8  11   3    379   82  47.38  -   2   -  5
Sri Lanka    10  15   2    453  111  34.85  1   2   -  9
Zimbabwe      4   3   -    110   61  36.67  -   1   -  5
Bangladesh    3   1   -     41   41  41.00  -   -   -  5
   Total:    74 103  26   2688  111  34.91  2  13   6 57
 
      Home:  39  53  11   1319  111  31.40  1   6   3 21
      Away:  35  50  15   1369  106* 39.11  1   7   3 36

All-rounders - 2000 runs + 300 wickets

All-rounder   For  Tests Runs HS  100 Ave. Wkts.Ave. 5WI 10WM
S.K.Warne     Aus   107  2238  99  - 16.83  491 25.71 23  6
Kapil Dev     Ind   131  5248 163  8 31.05  434 29.65 23  2
R.J.Hadlee    NZ     86  3124 151* 2 27.67  431 22.30 36  9
Wasim Akram   Pak   104  2898 257* 3 22.64  414 23.62 25  5
I.T.Botham    Eng   102  5200 208 14 33.55  383 28.40 27  4
Imran Khan    Pak    88  3807 136  6 37.69  362 22.81 23  6
S.M.Pollock   SA     74  2688 111  2 34.91  302 20.71 15  1

(Article: Copyright © 2003 Rajesh Kumar)