Refuge Assurance League match he scored a match-winning 100, then finally he hit 77 to help Nottinghamshire through to the final of the Benson & Hedges Cup. (He also played in the final, which his county won, but failed personally in making only 2.) For good measure, he hit 153 in his very next innings, against Cambridge University. In List A cricket he was also fairly successful, making two centuries. Pollard played only the first and last parts of the 1990 season in the first team, but thereafter was a regular choice for several years. His best seasons in first-class cricket were 1991, when he scored 1,255 runs at just over 33; and especially 1993, when he achieved a career-best 1,463 runs at 50.44; that year he topped the Nottinghamshire averages. The 1993 season also saw him make his highest score in first-class cricket, and once again he punished one county particularly: Derbyshire suffered as Pollard scored 180 and 91 in a drawn Championship match, followed immediately by another 91 in an easy AXA Equity and Law League win. Thereafter, Pollard's first-class figures were never quite as good again, but in the one-day game it was to be 1995 that would prove his most successful season. He scored 882 List A runs that year, by some distance his highest season's aggregate, and made eight half-centuries as well as a single hundred, an innings of 132* against Somerset at Trent Bridge in early June. This century was the culmination of another purple patch: he had made 120 against the same opponents in the Championship a few days earlier, before that 83* versus Scotland in the NatWest Trophy, and before that 75 and 81* against Kent in the Championship. Pollard's career meandered somewhat for a few years in the late 1990s, and while his performances were far from terrible they were less impressive than might have been expected from an experienced opening batsman: in the three seasons between 1996 and 1998 he scored only one hundred in each of first-class and List A cricket. Seeking a new start he signed for Worcestershire for 1999, but his first summer at New Road was disappointing, Pollard averaging under 20 in first-class cricket, although he was significantly more successful in List A games, with an average there of 41. The following year he made 123* and 69 in a heavy defeat by Kent, and in