Pollock out, new captain will be in place today

Yesterday’s crucial meeting at Newlands in Cape Town, about 200 yards from the field where South Africa lost their opening game in the World Cup five weeks ago, was called to discuss team selection policy regarding the Sharjah Series starting on April 1, and the Bangladesh tour after that tournament.

But other issues included Pollock’s future role. ‘‘He went into the meeting with the intention of resigning as there was a perception that he did not have the full support of the side after the team’s poor performance in the World Cup’’, said a source present at the meeting.

Pollock, it is believed, has been unhappy with a number of factors surrounding the World Cup and certain policy which was outside the confines of the selection room. One factor was that pressure and political interference in team selection created an imbalanced bowling attack, described by former selector Pat Symcox as the worst since 1960.