West In­dies all-rounder Kieron Pol­lard will re­turn to the na­tion­al crick­et team for its clash against Wind­ward Is­lands in the West In­dies Crick­et Board Pro­fes­sion­al Crick­et League at the Na­tion­al Crick­et Cen­tre in Cou­va, which bowls off on Fri­day.

Af­ter suf­fer­ing a leg in­jury in the Nagi­co Su­per50 tour­na­ment, which T&T won, Pol­lard has on­ly been com­pet­ing for his club team Queen's Park Crick­et Club.

Man­ag­er of the na­tion­al team Roland Sam­path is hap­py to have Pol­lard back in the T&T squad.

Sam­path said: "He is an in­ter­na­tion­al pa­ly­er, he will lend a lot to the team." T&T is hop­ing Pol­lard will con­tin­ue his top form with the bat as the team is look­ing for back-to-back wins.

Play­ing for Queen's Park in the Shang­hai Con­struc­tion Group Na­tion­al League over the week­end, Pol­lard slammed an un­beat­en 128 off 114 balls, which in­clud­ed 15 six­es and five fours.

In the last round T&T crushed Ja­maica by 179 runs at Sabi­na Park, Ja­maica be­hind per­for­mances from Kjorn Ot­t­ley and Im­ran Khan.

Ot­t­ley was un­for­tu­nate not to get his maid­en first class cen­tu­ry when he was dis­missed for 99 in the sec­ond in­nings, while leg spin­ner Khan grabbed eight wick­ets in the match.