WATCH | 78-year-old cricket legend Graeme Pollock shows he's still got it

If there's an embodiment of the sporting adage that class is permanent, then it's Graeme Pollock.

In a heartening video shared widely on social media, the 78-year-old legend, named South Africa's Cricketer of the 20th Century and inducted into the ICC's Hall of Fame, is given a few throw-downs and still drives those deliveries with the utmost ease.

Remarkably, Pollock does so despite being in poor health for some time now.

He had a pacemaker inserted, his colon removed, suffered various small strokes and is burdened with the debilitating Parkinson's Disease.

That doesn't prevent Pollock - nowadays living in a retirement village with 24-hour care in northern Johannesburg - from still watching cricket religiously and taking his dogs for a walk.

Judging by his cover drive, his Test average of 60.23 in 23 Tests before South Africa's sporting isolation would've stayed intact if he'd been granted the opportunity.