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Andrew Graeme Pollock

South African cricketer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ4757141
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Andrew Graeme Pollock (born 14 November 1969) is a former first-class and List A cricketer who played for Transvaal and Easterns in the 1990s. He comes from a cricketing family. He is the son of the South African Test cricketer Graeme Pollock, nephew of Peter Pollock, grandson of Andrew Maclean Pollock, and a cousin of Shaun Pollock. His brother is Anthony Pollock.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Andrew Graeme Pollock” is south African cricketer. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Andrew, Graeme and Pollock, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1969—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1969-11-14. For this dossier, Andrew, Graeme and Pollock is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from Andrew Graeme Pollock” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.