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4 unusual facts about Vic Pollard


Vic Pollard

In the first Test at Trent Bridge New Zealand were set 479 to win in the fourth innings.

Some 25 years later he entered politics by joining the South Island based Christian Heritage Party, where he was 3rd on their list of candidates.

The party platform was "Family, Justice, Choice and less Government control." However, he failed to be elected and subsequently left the party a few years later following a scandal that resulted in the conviction and imprisonment of the party leader, Graham Capill.

Making his debut in the first Test against India in Chennai he dismissed the Indian opening batsman, Dilip Sardesai, when he clean bowled him for 22 in his very first bowling spell.



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