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Donald kept Pollock company as his captain reached his second Test century to put the tourists in a strong position.

The pair added 132 for the ninth wicket - Pollock 106 not out, Donald 37 - as South Africa reached an imposing 454 in their first innings at the Kensington Oval.

"Thanks to Allan, he really did stick around and it was a brilliant effort on his part to make his highest Test score," said Pollock.

"So thank you to him and it was nice just to get in there and get over 450."

When Donald came to the crease Pollock was on eight and his side 315-8, and he admitted that a century was far from the first thing on his mind.

"In the back of your mind you always hope, but if you'd been a realist you wouldn't have thought so. But the way Allan kept up his end just made it possible."

In the history of Test cricket only 10 centuries have been scored by players batting at number nine and Pollock now has two of them - he struck his maiden hundred against Sri Lanka only four Tests ago.

"I was down to come in at eight but last night Lance Klusener wanted a nightwatchman so Nicky Boje went up in the order," he said.

"If we are competing for positions down the order, that's great. It means that the strength of our batting is much better and I was really happy with the performance down the bottom of the order.

"We've had a few problems in that area so far in the series and discussed it and earmarked it as an area for improvement and all credit to the guys, we've come out of it really well.

"We're not going out there just to defend our total. With a big score they've got to make over 250 to avoid the follow-on and we believe we can bowl them out for less than that."

Special century

Pollock was for many years coached by the late West Indian great Malcolm Marshall, a Barbadian for whom Kensington Oval was home.

"It means a lot to me to score a century here. This is the ground where he played all his cricket.

"It's got an end named after him, so it is special to score a hundred in Barbados. It's just a pity he wasn't here to see it," said Pollock.