[1] Pollock made his debut in first-class cricket in 1939, when Ireland played Scotland at Dublin.
[2] He resumed playing first-class cricket after World War II, touring England in 1947 when he played in both first-class matches on the tour against Derbyshire and Yorkshire.
[2] He featured in first-class cricket until 1958, playing a total of 23 matches; twenty of these came for Ireland, with Pollock also playing two matches for the Marylebone Cricket Club and one for the Free Foresters.
He was President of the Irish Cricket Union in 1980, a role in which he was described as "much travelled, popular and successful.
"[1] Outside of cricket, Pollock was a competent golfer and squash player, and worked as director in the family timber business.