Jack Ernest Pollard OAM (31 July 1926 – 25 May 2002) was an Australian sports journalist, writer and cricket historian.
He returned to Sydney briefly, then moved to England, where he worked as a horse racing writer for a newspaper in Sheffield.
[2][3] He covered many major sporting events, including the 1948 Summer Olympics, ten Wimbledon Championships and the 1948 tour of England by Don Bradman's Australian cricket team.
[7] Pollard was a prolific writer and editor, who produced a large number of sporting reference books, including a definitive five-volume history of Australian cricket, encyclopaedias on rugby union, golf, horse racing and a series of popular fishing guides.
[8] Although Pollard's works included all Australian sports,[9] it is his cricket writing that is considered an important part of his legacy.