Pollock content with decision to retire

Font Size -

Reuters

Posted online: Monday , February 04, 2008 at 09:12:37
Updated: Monday , February 04, 2008 at 09:30:02

Johannesburg, February 4: All-rounder Shaun Pollock said he was at peace with his decision to retire from international cricket on Sunday.

The 34-year-old scored the winning runs in South Africa's eight-wicket victory over West Indies to clinch a 5-0 series clean-sweep in his last match for his country.

"It's been a fantastic journey for me but retiring is all good. I have real peace about it," Pollock told reporters.

Pollock, who was also South Africa's most economical bowler on Sunday with one for 33 in his 10 overs, was named joint man of the series with South African batsman JP Duminy.

"To finish on a high has been awesome and it's ended just perfectly.

"It's been a great profession to have for the last 12 years and I would do it all again. My philosophy was very much 'keep it simple, stupid'," Pollock said.

He was surprised by the impact his decision had had on cricket fans in South Africa, with all five matches watched by near capacity crowds.

"I've been blown away by the reception at every match. It could have been sad but I'll take away such fond memories because the crowds have carried me," he said.

Pollock finished on 10 not out after South Africa chased down a daunting target of 211 in 31 overs, revised due to rain interruptions, the bulk of the work being done by Herschelle Gibbs (102) and Jacques Kallis (74 not out) in a second-wicket stand of 175 off 148 balls.

"It's been an emotional rollercoaster and I feel drained and tired for the first time in my career," Pollock said.

Bookmark this Page

What is this?

Digg

On Digg, users share intersting online content by submitting links to the site. At that point, the Digg audience can vote on whether or not they think it is interesting. Articles with lots of votes, or "diggs," rise up higher on the site's main page and topical subsection pages. Another form of social sharing, this site also lets users categorize the content they are submitting to Digg and label it with descriptions of up to 350 characters. Digg users can also submit comments on each content item submitted to the site.

To register, go to: http://digg.com/register

del.icio.us

At its most basic level, del.icio.us allows users to save their bookmarks online. Del.icio.us also gives users the ability to "tag" their bookmarks with descriptive category names. For example, someone who has bookmarked multiple Web pages that deal with the Washington Nationals baseball team could tag those links with any terms they want, like "baseball," "nationals," "natsfan," etc.

As members of a "social bookmarking" community, del.icio.us sers can also see how many other people have bookmarked the same pages, and they can look at those users' bookmark collections to find other interesting online content.

To register, go to: http://del.icio.us/register

Reddit

Reddit allows users to submit news articles and other online content to the site. Users also give articles a thumbs-up or thumbs-down. Reddit then uses those votes to build a user profile and to find articles to recommend to you. Users can also submit comments on items posted to the site.

To register, go to: http://reddit.com/login

Digg

My Yahoo

Fark

del.icio.us

Newsvine

Rate this Article

Rating

Post Comments

Name*		Email ID*
Subject*		Country*
Message*	Characters remaining

TERMS OF USE: The views represented here are not neccesarily endorsed by www.expressindia.com and its allied websites. All messages will be moderated and no message that has inflammatory, abusive, derogatory language or any language deemed unfit for publication by the editor will be displayed. Though it will be endeavoured that as many messages as possible be displayed, there will be time lag between the submission and publication of the messages. The website reserves the right to publish or reject any message.

I agree to the terms of use.