Shaun Pollock Debut Man of the Match Performance vs England. 1st ODI 1996

Brief Highlights of 1st One Day international played between South Africa vs England. The Series which served as a pre cursor for the 1996 World Cup.
Shaun Pollock along with Jacque Kallis made their one day debuts n the match. Pollock first scored 66 not out after South Africa were in trouble at 107/6 and carried his team to a defendable 211 for the loss of 8 wickets. Then in England reply he took 4 wickets thus completing a memorable one Day Debut,

[@khayasontsele8984]

We miss you Hansie. Rest well Sir. ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

[@sidharthchandla7966]

Allan Donald is one of the most charismatic bowler I ever saw. True legend

[@scottterwiel]

Always remember Alan Donald terrorising the aussie. Hed take some stick and then just fire up knock em over

[@ShahzadAshrafi]

Loved his bowling action, used to copy him in my teen days..

[@rgfitness6425]

Pollock was better

[@galloprealtors6745]

Make up like ultimate warrior of WWF😂

[@chelseajacques_]

I was at this game... it was played less than a week after the New Years test(5th and deciding test of that tour which SA won) were played(I also attended that test match prior to this game). If I remember correctly, SA won this ODI series 6-1, and the next game was that infamous one where Dave Richardson broke his hand keeping behind the stumps which ruled him out for the World Cup, and so Gary Kirsten had to take the gloves for the remainder of the ODI games. Despite that, this was quite a golden era for SA cricket, some really good memories for me as a fan. Also that Benson & Hedges match jerseys were arguably one of my favourites ever.

[@muzafirmanil6320]

Hansie Cronje Captaincy it's very strong and batting line up bowling and All-rounder ... great fielding ❤️❤️💪💪 Really Miss you Hansie And Love you ...

[@neamulhasan6405]

Love from Bangladesh

[@chelseajacques_]

@@neamulhasan6405 cheers Neamul... Bangladesh my favourite Asian team :)

[@neamulhasan6405]

@@chelseajacques_ Are u South African?

[@chelseajacques_]

@@neamulhasan6405 yes I am. Newlands in Cape Town is my home ground, starting watching cricket around the time Pollock and Kirsten made their debut for SA :)

[@Danish-9525]

What a crowd, shouting at every ball, what a match, good old memories

[@techBuffy]

This is Gold Standard. Some of these games were never televised in India. Pollock what a gem of an All Rounder amongst a whole dungeon full of quality All Rounders

[@hpmmiggie]

Eish, that young Kallis chap. He looks like he might make a few runs. :D Such potential.

[@rageshraghavan3225]

Anybody notice Cullinan's 2.stunning cover drives?... Thats why he becomes my all time fvte.

[@superuser2086]

I did. Yes. He really had a mean cover drive. No wonder he was so arrogant.

[@mayankbawari]

Just so good

[@jameskim2720]

I did too. Stunning, absolutely stunning

[@TheAbdullah2138]

Hansie we missed u lot. Between 1996 to 2000 they put south Africa at a peak. The world never forgets you.

[@Siphamandla.Ngcobo]

Wonderful time for South African cricket those days. Allan Donald was definitely the best fast bowler in the world - all due respect to McGrath, Ambrose, Walsh, Waqar and Wasim. But we just couldn't win world cups. We have horrible memories of the agony of the 92, 96, 99, and 03 tournaments.

[@Vishumandal1990]

One of the best video quality I have seen in 90's eara

[@fashionfitnesstrends5668]

Those days were gold.....nothing left now.....

[@leandro-alexclarke362]

The days when kids were safe at these events and would get autographs unlike these divas today

[@JitenderSingh-mr6hk]

Donald and Cork looking like real brothers 🙄

[@amitgautam7092]

Yes exactly similar feature, aggression on field look Pollock and peter martin

[@maharshi1506]

yes my childhood thought m glad someone else thinks this too

[@imran_riazfan5603]

Childhood memories lol

[@gana_04]

👍😁

[@mpqw]

Yes and Mel Gibson from braveheart too 😂

[@mbadi5735]

There will never be a bowler like Alan'The White Lightning' Donald. My childhood hero and a legend.

[@tiaancloete7301]

Imagine Donald and Steyn opening the bowling together every batsmen's worst nightmare.

[@AbidHussain-bp8xn]

Great Shaun Pollock Then Showed That He Was A Hero Born From That His Debut Match. What An Amazing Performance From Pollock, Playing A Crucial Innings At Very Important Time Then Taking Wickets Time By Time To Take His Team Near Victory & Then Bowling The Decisive Over Where He Clean Bowled The Last Batter To Win The Match For His Team On His First ODI Outing.

[@Mzansi74]

My favourite Proteas team ever! ❤❤❤ Best attack, great batsmen, excellent fielding, and the best captain!

[@yourstruly1234]

Those days, South Africa used to have a very deep batting line-up..it was almost impossible to restrict them to a low score..even if they were 6 or 7 down, they still used to have quality players down the order like Pollock, kusener, McMillan, Boucher who used to take them to a defendable score..

[@warrenforest7417]

There was a time when SA Had batting all the way down to number 10 1. Kirsten 2. Gibbs 3. Kallis 4. Cronje 5. Cullinan/ Rhodes 6. Pollock 7. Boucher 8. McMillain/Snell 9. Klusener 10. Boje/ Symcox 11. Donald /Mathews So many great Allrounders

[@riyaanabrahams4061]

@@warrenforest7417 There was a match that shaun pollock came in at 11 lol

[@warrenforest7417]

@@riyaanabrahams4061 I cant remember this but I can believe it!

[@Bruh-ys3sx]

Same like Sri Lanka and Australia

[@daaichommie708]

@@warrenforest7417 100%. We arguably had the best cricket team to never win a world cup. Top quality side.

[@firstlook6060]

R.I.P those golden days of cricket

[@muzafirmanil6320]

Hansie Cronje Captaincy it's very strong Really Miss you Hansie

[@saimelmas9645]

My Father always remember him.

[@matthewvanrensburg3824]

Um.....

[@vick122]

The best captain ever,it was unfortunate he got involved in match fixing thing. Always used to like him.

[@daaichommie708]

@@vick122 Saddest part is that Australian players were found out in worse scandals, yet escaped with a slap on the wrist.

[@mayankdobhal2100]

Who was hancy cronje

[@wittyroark]

Use to absolutely love his bowling ... many kids like me use to copy actions of both Donald and Pollock .... most effective & elegant actions.

[@Mzansi74]

Let's not forget Matthews' ultra economic bowling. And Brian Mac's physical presence! And Hansie's charismatic leadership!

[@umairsqu]

kallis was pure class. his cover drives are some of the best ever.

[@saurabhlanjewar7199]

Golden Days of Cricket 👍🏻

[@cucumbercarrot4010]

I loved Peter Martin's bowling action. It was so smooth.

[@ravi45764]

1996-2003 South africa had potential to win an icc world cup.

[@trk4329]

1992 itself they had a chance

[@vandemataram6639]

@@trk4329 they were unlucky in 1992 due to illogical rules of duckworth Louis

[@axelthegod6417]

It all came down to luck and south Africa was just unlucky in all of them ...mixed with stupid strategies

[@DavidTenowitz]

Yeah, we had out chances back then, pity we didnt get one hey! Now we might not even quality, lol... how times have changed!

[@digantsharma6447]

Instead of deserve pls use potential... Thn u r rgt

[@safrinseyed1665]

Im a Big fan of Big Mac’s (Brian McMillan) slip catching n never seen a better slip fielder than him .

[@wittysparks6787]

oh stop it.

[@ericfick8770]

Kallis

[@dualmediatrends]

A legend started his journey

[@vishaldubey5699]

Back when cricket was just cricket ❤️

[@colourandsound]

Interesting comment considering what happened between these teams a couple of years later with largely the same players.

[@vishaldubey5699]

@@colourandsound oh I'm not aware of what happened

[@colourandsound]

​@@vishaldubey5699 It was 21 years ago now so maybe people don't remember. The series between them 4 years later was to be the precursor to all the problems the sport has now with illegal bookmaking. It all started with this test www.espncricinfo.com/series/england-tour-of-south-africa-1999-00-61687/south-africa-vs-england-5th-test-63864/full-scorecard

[@14mdnaiyer17]

What a performance by junior POLLOUCK

[@tamilarasan409]

Even 90 's friends seen every match with group and crowd in single room

[@leandro-alexclarke362]

This was pollock and kallis 1st series and what we didn't REALISE was the birth of legends

[@flmybuff]

Loved pollock always. Smile on face and with Great line n length either contain them or get it. Certainly amongst best all rounder cricket seen.

[@abhinavsengar789]

When 200+ used to be a fighting total if you had a good bowling line up.

[@Aman-nk5uq]

Tests are tuffer now. Odis were tuffer back then

[@axelthegod6417]

All those low scores was a indication of how good the bowling line ups was...every side had true legends bowling...

[@DavidTenowitz]

Yeah, 185 to 220 was par back then, that was like 250 to 280 in nowadays. Back then 245 was a +/- 300 to 320+ type score in todays terms.

[@parthsavyasachi9348]

@@axelthegod6417 long boundaries

[@nisarbutt6931]

beautiful era of cricket beautiful coloured kits

[@d.dabolkar]

Neon stumps, Domnic Cork matching sun tan crean with his shirt.......wow what a colorful cricket wet had in 90's. We miss these Tri-series.

[@sandeepraghavan1103]

Shaun Pollock one of the greatest players

[@PeteMoore25]

Damn, so good to see Hansie again, and looking so happy!

[@aRsH-aJ]

That's how you would feel sitting in a stadium. . . . No commentary and No ads.

[@DadaurBetatravelvlogs]

Those were the days , when cricket was so exciting ❤❤😊😊

[@MeMe-td1ye]

Just over ten years later South Africa & Australia each scored 400 in an innings

[@kevinschou9094]

Could any team in the history of cricket boast the all-round talent that SA had in this era? McMillan, Pollock, Kallis, Cronje, Klusener (don't think he'd debuted yet), Symcox. Guys like Boje who was a very respectable all-rounder were in the system as well at this time. The late 90's were a great time for cricket.

[@drsmart0078]

South Africa had the belief and commitment in normal odi games . Just didn’t have the killer instinct along with luck in big semifinals . Had the best side along with Pakistan 🇵🇰 in 1999 but both these teams were run over by the Aussies.

[@mitumastram123]

Aussies had the team of match winners and luck also favors them in 1999 world cup otherwise both Pakistan and South Africa should win that world cup

[@AhamedImran]

Shaun Pollock is so underrated as an allrounder

[@tiaancloete7301]

Fascinating how the game has changed 210 220 these days are sometimes not enough in t20 cricket and in odi it is considered far below par.

[@RK-lp8qb]

i’m studying 10th standard"...... thanks for uploading video.

[@jacqloock]

Those were the days, my friends, we thought they’d never end, they would go on… forever and a day

[@somnathpal7252]

Wish Shaun Pollock and Wasim Akram also focussed on their batting.. They were such talents!

[@SibghatMansoor]

Cricket is so much fun without commentary today I realized

[@Unanimous-q1l]

U have heard today's commentary, u should watch channel 9 commentary n Sky Sports UK commentary, u will come to know cricket without commentary is like tea without sweetener, Ian Chappell, bill lawry, Richie benaud, mark Taylor, mark Nicholas and Tony Greig without a doubt the best commentary team off all time, while in England Bob Willis, Paul allot, Ian Botham, Nasser Hussain n Michael Atherton just hear them, they r great too, unfortunately some of these legends r no more

[@ravigawai7322]

Why there waa no commentary? Loved the electrified atmosphere in the stadium.

[@arpanbhattacharya5484]

That team was ahead of its time.wonderful fielding side and all rounders till number eight or nine were assets of that team. They thought early about the modern concept of team balance what we are following now.

[@sahilsharma-bo1mo]

i miss my 90s golden days

[@Gokugaming56867]

Donald a bowler of century. What a great bowler.

[@vishnuvarthan1788]

Nice camera work in this video... Looking like 2022 match....

[@sushmattu9350]

Kya match , kya din the, old is really gold, crowd aggressive

[@rudramahadev22]

What an awesome legend Pollock is

[@pobitromajumdar8781]

Cork and Donald’s action and look was so similar. However, after pitching Donald was a far superior bowler!

[@techBuffy]

Well Cork was unplayable in swinging conditions. Around 1996 he was a superstar. Can't compare him with Donald. Donald was hit the deck and skid. Cork initially had bit of pace but like most low pace swing bolwers , he couldn't endure the test of time

[@vickyvirk4424]

Cork was late 70s- early 80s (~127-132) kph; Donald was in the range of mid 80s- early 90mph (~135-146 kph) type. Cork lose out on pace

[@manohark4459]

Cricket without commentary is like movie without BGM 😂

[@saikrishnadurbhakula6431]

Correct

[@സുബ്രഹ്മണ്യന്]

Nice to watch without commentary.

[@IanGorton]

The way cricket commentary has gone in recent years it makes one wish the broadcasters would give us the option of watching without it. But we still get the stadium audio

[@sandeepnayak8471]

Darren Gough bowling action❤️

[@babunarasiman8281]

How good it is without commentary

[@GreeneryInfo]

B day boy shaun pollock

[@Waseemashraf1979]

Another Brilliant Upload

[@crickethub]

thanks. keep supporting and viewing the channel videos. more games will be up soon

[@sourabhsuri8812]

That’ sheepish smile on Atherton’S face, when Allan “The White Lightening” Donald bowled him with a ripper .. so that’s how the Rivalry started 😂😂 Remember the Spell of 1998, in the Test Match - Atherton Vs. Donald.

[@SanaSulthan]

Manchester mate

[@srncet]

Those were 150plus kmph balls

[@axelthegod6417]

Who can forget damn...golden days of cricket

[@sourabhkumar2234]

When money comes to India, corruption is bound to happen... So competitive Cricket has finished... The natural pitch conditions are changed by the powerful Boards... Thats so destructive for cricket. In SENA countries we are getting flat tracks nowadays... 😂😂

[@LucianoDen]

2 legends were born that day

[@Darren_S]

The Protea legends. A team we could be proud of.

[@kanthector]

When you know Kallis didn't need to bowl, you know what a quality attack they had ..

[@kokmuncher6702]

How good is listening to the sound of the game and crowd instead of commentators

[@MrMik693]

Dermot reev not so well known cricketer used to be my favorite cricketer in my childhood

[@sumana3529]

Ah, good old days..❤

[@Dedicated3319]

In those eras true contest between bat n ball can be seen.

[@sudiptamanna4195]

Oh all players were legend both team

[@rpat17]

Those days i liked SA team a lot. I was so hurt with the Hansie Cronje case.

[@krishnendubasu5936]

Awesome upload

[@renjithvazhayila8382]

Want to see WI, SL, Pak and SA play like they did in 80s and 90s. Fierce and competitive. Very diff to beat. Aggressive and unique style players. Wasim, Donald, Pollock, Imran, Waqar, Malcom Marshal, Ambrose, Miandad, Cronje, Lara, Jayasurya, Aravinda desilva. Nowadays only Eng, Aus and Ind. Quality of cricket has gone down.

[@sourabhkumar2234]

Those days my father use to take Telegraph Newspaper and I use to go through every cricket match details, like scorecard(was best presented in Telegraph like actual shown in TV) and every linev by editor. Bcz those days we had Antena showing DD only, and no cable channel. Those International tours were telecasted in ESPN and some Star Sports. And those channels were International channels, not like today's Indian Star Sports, Sony Sports.

[@anujmathur3368]

What a match.....

[@abhisheks8758]

Alan donald is my man of the match❤️

[@sultaanmaalik5659]

Old is Gold.

[@rohitthomas8040]

Allan Donald definitely made the most important breakthroughs.

[@DonutCHANNELS]

Surprised no Jimmy Anderson playing here 😂

[@aziezg8263]

Good quality video wish there was commentary tho

[@queensanjanavlogs4895]

Pollock and Donald deadly combination

[@OptimisticDipankar]

picture quality is very good

[@amitchauhan6760]

That South African team was invincible.

[@yangerjamir0906]

I miss 90s cricket.

[@indian3197]

Neil fairbrother great middle order batsman.

[@KenParsonswasp]

Those were the days my friend

[@abhijeetbhattacharya1685]

Cork a bowler this man was . Had the capacity to destroy a team single handedly

[@arnaboceanatyahoo]

Why no commentary? Classic match

[@crickethub]

Because that is Copyrighted by SABC. This is from their own original DVD

[@KrishnaKalaRecipes]

Sa under cronje were almost invincible!!

[@axelthegod6417]

We actually were payed to lose games

[@ചുഗസിംഹമന്നാടിയാർ-ഛ2ഢ]

ഹാൻസിയുടെ കീഴിൽ ഉണ്ടായിരുന്ന SA ടീം അതാണ് റിയൽ ടീം പൊള്ളോക്കിന്റെ പങ്ക് പിന്നെ എടുത്ത് പറയേണ്ടതില്ലല്ലോ ഈ കാലഘട്ടത്തിലൊക്കെ നുമ്മ ഹൈസ്കൂൾ പഠനം ആണ് 😌

[@NivenPillay]

Miss those silky Cullinan cover drives. Those were the days.... 🥲

[@laptop5822]

Daryl cullinan was on peak. It was tough to out him those days

[@Jejjejdjskka.]

What a dangerous match

[@neelroy5358]

Which ground

[@UMER-wj5kx]

Money changed the scenario of the 🏏 # ipl directly changed the game

[@farrelchinnappa9484]

Nice to see big Mac,

[@Ghayaskhan]

Golden time cricket

[@rohitwarkade8378]

Oh wat an era i experinced

[@wbashir26]

STRANGE STRANGE STRANGE,,, I AM ABSOLUTELY SURPRISED TO SEE THAT IT WAS A VERY CLOSE FINISH,,,FULL OF EXCITEMENT AND ENTHUSIASM ,,,FULL PACK STADIUM BUT NO COMMENTARY NO COMMENTATORS,,,CAN ANYONE TELL ME WHY???

[@sushmattu9350]

Rip golden days

[@queensanjanavlogs4895]

Cullinan is fablous player