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Tuesday, July 22, 2025

Pollard in Windies W Cup squad

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Vinode Mamchan
2259 days ago
20190517
Mumbai Indians' Kieron Pollard plays a shot during the VIVO IPL T20 cricket final match between Mumbai Indians and Chennai Super Kings in Hyderabad, India, Sunday.

Mumbai Indians' Kieron Pollard plays a shot during the VIVO IPL T20 cricket final match between Mumbai Indians and Chennai Super Kings in Hyderabad, India, Sunday.

AP

Fresh from win­ning the In­di­an Pre­mier League (IPL) with the Mum­bai In­di­ans, Kieron Pol­lard has found him­self back on the Windies team and has been in­clud­ed on the World Cup squad.

The hard-hit­ting all-rounder was a key play­er in his team’s ef­fort to­wards win­ning the pop­u­lar IPL. He now comes in­to the Windies team to bol­ster the mid­dle or­der and gen­er­al out-crick­et for the Windies squad.

Guardian Me­dia Sports un­der­stand that the se­lec­tion pan­el head­ed by Ja­maican Robert Haynes de­cid­ed that the 32-year-old Pol­lard should be in­clud­ed to add that need­ed ex­pe­ri­ence to the youth­ful West In­dies team at this ma­jor event.

Yet an­oth­er Trinida­di­an could find him­self on the team, as sources told Guardian Me­dia that they are await­ing a fit­ness re­port on one of the men orig­i­nal­ly se­lect­ed on the team and if he can’t make it, an­oth­er Trinida­di­an is on stand­by to get in­to the team.

Guardian Me­dia fur­ther un­der­stands that this week­end all will be fi­nalised by the board and made pub­lic.

Pol­lard has played 101 One Day In­ter­na­tion­als, scor­ing 2,289 runs at an av­er­age of 25.71. The right-han­der has three cen­turies and nine half-cen­turies and en­joys a strike rate of 92.89. In the bowl­ing de­part­ment, he has nabbed 50 wick­ets at 39.12 with an econ­o­my rate of 5.74.

Ear­li­er, Haynes had said: “The 15-mem­ber squad in­cludes nine play­ers that will be mak­ing their first ap­pear­ance in the glob­al show­piece. Based on the new se­lec­tion pol­i­cy ap­proach which al­lowed us to con­sid­er a num­ber of play­ers that have not reg­u­lar­ly ap­peared in the side over the last two years, we had a wide base of tal­ent from which to choose.

“There were a num­ber of tough calls we had to make to set­tle on our squad of 15, in­clud­ing en­sur­ing there was some con­ti­nu­ity in the side, but we be­lieve we have cho­sen a strong squad of play­ers tak­ing in­to con­sid­er­a­tion such fac­tors as ex­pe­ri­ence, fit­ness, team bal­ance, cur­rent form and con­di­tions.

“In keep­ing with tour­na­ment reg­u­la­tions, we sub­mit­ted our squad pri­or to the dead­line date. All play­ers named for the Tri-Na­tions Se­ries could, how­ev­er, stake a claim to be in the fi­nal 15-mem­ber squad that will be sub­mit­ted af­ter the Tri-Se­ries and be­fore the fi­nal dead­line next month.”

WINDIES FIRST SQUAD SUB­MIT­TED TO ICC:

Ja­son Hold­er (c), Evin Lewis, Dar­ren Bra­vo, Chris Gayle, An­dre Rus­sell, Car­los Brath­waite, Nicholas Pooran, Os­hane Thomas, Shai Hope (wk), Shim­ron Het­my­er, Fa­bi­en Allen, Shel­don Cot­trell, Shan­non Gabriel, Ke­mar Roach, Ash­ley Nurse.


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