Pollock predicament highlights lingering animosity in SA cricket

Sunday Times

TELFORD VICE, Harare

GRAEMEPollock, owner of the second-highest batting average in test cricket history and officially South Africa’s Cricketer of the [20th] Century is, at 70, a physically and financially fragile facsimile of the brawny left-hander whose bruising cover drives once inspired oohs in onlookers, fear in fielders and stress among scorers.

Pollock is battling colon cancer and Parkinson’s disease and is recovering from a minor stroke — factors that limit his ability to ea...