SUR­REY, Eng­land – For­mer West In­dies white-ball cap­tain Kieron Pol­lard is out for the rest of the Vi­tal­i­ty Blast af­ter hav­ing surgery for a knee in­jury.

Pol­lard, the Sur­rey Coun­ty Crick­et Club’s over­seas star, had sus­tained the in­jury ear­ly on in the side’s cam­paign in the Twen­ty20 com­pe­ti­tion, and the club said in a state­ment on Tues­day that de­spite treat­ment, “he has failed to im­prove sig­nif­i­cant­ly and there­fore a de­ci­sion was tak­en to gain a sur­gi­cal opin­ion”.

“He has un­der­gone suc­cess­ful surgery this morn­ing which will keep him out of ac­tion for the next four to six weeks whilst he re­ha­bil­i­tates,” the state­ment said.

Pol­lard said the de­vel­op­ment was “huge­ly frus­trat­ing as we have been a dom­i­nant force and I felt I was part of some­thing spe­cial”.

“But I wish the lads all the best for the rest of the cam­paign whilst I get my­self fit and fir­ing again,” he added.

Sur­rey have five games re­main­ing in the Group stages of the pro­fes­sion­al T20 crick­et com­pe­ti­tion for Eng­lish and Welsh first-class coun­ties.

“We are dis­ap­point­ed to lose a play­er of Kieron’s qual­i­ty and wish him a speedy re­cov­ery,” said Alec Stew­art, Di­rec­tor of Crick­et at Sur­rey Coun­ty Crick­et Club.

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