Another red nut bites the dust

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Shaun Pollock has retired.

Yawn.

I checked my previous posts to see how many times he has been mentioned on cricket with balls.

There was two, one was by Sime and it said

"Old man Pollock (Shaun) was in the dressing room, in between stints as a substitute fielder, plotting his second cricketing life, as a wicket keeper, donning the gloves in what can only be described as a bizarre piece of footage from the players balcony."
The other was my post, Shaun Pollock of the dead, which was hated by most people. Especially people from the BBC site I placed it on, which is probably why I like it.

In this post I mention that he had almost no impact on me, and since I’ve written over 400 blogs now and mentioned him twice I think you get the idea.

He didn’t even make my post about evil South Africans.

He is a Eunuch, he is beige, he is platonic, he is a pop star, he is a fibre enriched breakfast serial, and if he didn’t have red hair, I may have never even noticed him.

Everyone has a story about how they saw him do something great once, except for me, perhaps I slept through it.

My problem with him is that at no stage did I ever feel like he was pushing his talent as far as it could go.

I always felt like he was holding himself back, like there was more to give, but that he felt comfortable with his efforts.

He played like a proboter, when he could have been anything.

Who does that?

I wasn’t born with his talent, but if I was, and I played my cricket as a medium paced handy batsmen I’d be fu©ken horrified with myself.

In his retirement speech he said he thanked god for his talents.

Well Shaun if I was god, which is a possibility, I’d smite thee from this here land for eternity.

Fancy mentioning god when you play cricket like a scientologist.

I am in the minority here, I can already see other people calling him a great, a brilliant flame haired red head who was a phenomenal all rounder.

The Pro Shaun Pollock movement will mention his amazing statistical record as proof of his greatness, well if that’s the case, Mike Hussey must be the second best batsman of all time.

I’m used to being in the minority, (not racially, or sexual preference wise, but politically and in my liking of Ian Harvey) and I stand by my final quote in the original post,

I choose to forget your career.www.cricketwithballs.com "the hooking & pulling specialists"