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Friday, July 18, 2025

POLLARD IS WINDIES CAPTAIN

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Vinode Mamchan - Senior Sports Reporter
2140 days ago
20190908
FOUR MORE!
Kieron Pollard of Trinbago Knight Riders hits down the ground during the Hero Caribbean Premier League match between Trinbago Knight Riders and Jamaica Tallawahs at Queen's Park Oval on Friday night in Port-of-Spain, T&T.

FOUR MORE! Kieron Pollard of Trinbago Knight Riders hits down the ground during the Hero Caribbean Premier League match between Trinbago Knight Riders and Jamaica Tallawahs at Queen's Park Oval on Friday night in Port-of-Spain, T&T.

Ashley Allen - CPL T20

T&T's Kieron Pol­lard has been named West In­dies 'white ball' cap­tain and will re­place Ja­son Hold­er and Car­los Brath­waite re­spec­tive­ly.

A source close to the sit­u­a­tion who spoke to Guardian Me­dia Sports on the con­di­tion anonymi­ty ex­plained that the de­ci­sion was tak­en by Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) Board of Di­rec­tors. Guardian Sports un­der­stands that the CWI di­rec­tors made the de­ci­sion on Sat­ur­day, the first day of their two-day reg­u­lar quar­ter­ly meet­ing at the Hilton Trinidad Ho­tel in Port-of-Spain.

Pol­lard, 32, who is cap­tain­ing the Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers (TKR) in the ab­sence of reg­u­lar cap­tain Dar­ren Bra­vo, who is in­jured and will be out of ac­tion for two months, was the play­er pro­posed by the se­lec­tion com­mit­tee and when the vote was tak­en, he got the sup­port from six di­rec­tors while the oth­er six ab­stained.

Pol­lard made his ODI de­but in April 2006 and played his last match on Oc­to­ber 5, 2016, against Pak­istan in the Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates. He was named as a re­serve play­er for the 2019 ICC World Cup. Af­ter the West In­dies dis­mal per­for­mance where they won just two match­es, there were calls for his in­clu­sion against the In­di­ans in the Caribbean but this did not ma­te­ri­al­ize and the West In­dies lost the se­ries 2-0.

Af­ter mak­ing his T20 de­but in June 2008 against Aus­tralia, but was over-looked for sev­er­al years. He was, how­ev­er, re­called to the West In­dies team for the T20 In­ter­na­tion­als against the In­di­ans last month and did well al­though the Caribbean team lost 3-0.

Pol­lard, who has led TKR to a 2-0 record so far in the 2019 edi­tion of the Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL), is an ag­gres­sive right-han­der, and medi­um-pace bowler shot to the lime­light dur­ing the 2009 Cham­pi­ons League in 2009. Af­ter this, he nev­er looked back and is one of the most feared strik­ers of the crick­et ball the world over. He is one of two play­ers to play over 100 ODIs and nev­er play a Test match.

His ODI record is 101 one day in­ter­na­tion­al match­es scor­ing 2,229 runs at an av­er­age of 25.71 with three cen­turies and nine fifties. For good mea­sure, he has al­so tak­en 50 wick­ets in this for­mat. In T20 in­ter­na­tion­als he has played 62 match­es, scor­ing 909 runs at an av­er­age of 21.50 and has snared 23 wick­ets.

CWI con­tin­ues their meet­ing to­day, the sec­ond and fi­nal day at the same venue.


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