Comments on: Shaun Pollock isn’t playing international cricket any more

By: amit lewis

amit lewis — Sun, 10 May 2009 15:14:07 +0000

What?
What ? What?
Pollock boring? who has the guts to say that?
Being an indian, I absolutely loved the way shaun pollock bowled and still do.

He was one of the premier fast bowlers of international cricket. Second to Glen Mcgrath in terms of line and length.

Look at his stats, economy and average in the later stages of his career as well. The author has lost his mind.

By: skchai

skchai — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 09:13:51 +0000

Well – a lot of people are slamming the SA selectors for dropping him.. He was continuing to take wickets; you don’t drop a man for being boring.

Anyway, let us not blame Shaun Pollock but rather the laws of cricket. What kind of perverted set of laws rewards bowlers for delivering the same ball to exactly the same spot outside off stump over after over after over? Hoping for one inch of deviation in any direction to get an edge?

A just set of laws would award only 0.25 or 0.125 of a wicket for that kind of “dismissal”. Give the batsman eight lives I mean. A full wicket should only go for clean bowling someone. In that kind of world, we would have had a different Shaun Pollock. One nicknamed “Ginger Lightning” rather than “Polly”. No, I’m not serious.

By: Uncle J rod

Uncle J rod — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 02:22:21 +0000

What pisses me off is that people still defend him. It’s like if Nick Cave ends up on pop idol and gets popular, people will defend that move backwards as long as he is still successful to the main stream.

Ingrates.

By: Miriam

Miriam — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 15:24:40 +0000

yay – the Vulcan Salute picture! I like that picture.

By: King Cricket

King Cricket — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 09:54:52 +0000

We had what we thought was a nice point to make about how Pollock’s transformation had ultimately cost him, but somehow this didn’t make it into the final draft.

It was something about how South Africa’s selectors eventually replaced him with more dynamic seam bowlers and how this has directly led to his retirement.