Fast-bowling great Allan Donald on Saturday said his former teammate Shaun Pollock was the Glenn McGrath of a South African team that dominated world cricket alongside Australia.
Pollock, a former South African captain, was inducted into the ICC Hall of Fame alongside Sri Lanka’s Mahela Jayawardene and former England women’s captain, the late Janette Brittin.
In a letter to Pollock, which was uploaded on the ICC website, Donald heaped high praise on his former pace bowling partner.
“What I admire a lot about you is the way you were able to adapt your game. When you first came into the Proteas side, you were this fast bowler who could terrorise batters.
“...Despite injuries later in your career, you always managed to be effective... and that’s a remarkable quality. You were our Glenn McGrath, the sort of bowler who could lock down an end and let the rest of us run free at the other,” Donald wrote.
Pollock was one of the finest bowling all-rounders in the game and was the first player to achieve the 3,000 run and 300 wicket double in both Test and ODI cricket.
“We could throw you the ball and say ‘See you tonight’. You would pile up the dots at one end and then I would have licence to express myself,” Donald wrote.
