South African Graeme Pollock's SOS to India.

KARACHI -- South African cricket legend Graeme Pollock perhaps the world's greatest living cricketer has had serious health problems for 10 years now, and at the age of 75, has found ways of generating income more and more difficult, according to his manager Basil O'Hagan. Speaking exclusveily, he said, Pollock's agent said, "Over the last 10 years Pollock was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, colon cancer and also suffered a stroke. These illnesses curtailed his earning capacity greatly, which in turn had adverse effect on his quality of life, adding financial stress and pressure and a mountain of medical bills to pay with less than limited resources". The 75-year-old Pollock was voted South Africa's player of the 20th Century in 1999. He is often called the greatest left-hander who ever played the game, and holds a Test batting average of 60.97. Although his playing career predated the ODI era, the big-hitting Pollock would have thrived.

He played first-class cricket from the age of 16 in 1960 until retiring in 1987 at the age of 43. Pollock also took part in a cricketers' protest against apartheid in 1971, when two first-class teams walked off the field after only one ball was delivered in the match in Cape Town. The players delivered a memorandum protesting that merit should be the only criteria in selection of South African cricket teams irrespective of colour. The players were severely criticized by the then Nationalist Government, however the players felt very strongly that it was a time for change, for a development program to be introduced, to aid nonwhite cricketers and to ensure all players would be chosen on merit. Pollock was 26 and in his prime when South Africa were barred from international cricket due to their government's apartheid policies...