One of the biggest six hitters, there wasn’t a bowler in world cricket who didn’t fear bowling fuller deliveries to Pollard in his prime and also the bouncer which would be effortlessly dug-out for straight sixes. He did have his problems against slower bowlers and later, as the teams did their homework, the wide would be effectively used to stop his exploits.
While the highlight of his international career would be hitting six sixes off Akira Dananjaya in a T20I — third to do so after Herschel Gibbs and Yuval Singh. He was a part of the 2012 ICC T20 World Cup winning West Indies squad. He never played Test cricket.
While he had three hundreds in ODI's, Pollard was never the same player for the West indies as he has been for Mumbai Indians or for that matter the other franchises for which he has plied his trade during all these years. A testimony to that would be 99 sixes in 101 T20Is, less than a six per game and during the later years, his bowling prowess dipped considerably as he fancied himself as a late-order hitter.
As he is closing in on his 35th birthday, Pollard knows that he would need to maximize his earnings by playing leagues all over the world and in the post COVID world, it is very difficult for a family man to hop from one bio-bubble to another with the additional burden of international cricket making the job doubly difficult.
Several former and active cricketers took to social media to extend their well-wishes to Kieron Pollard, who announced his retirement from international cricket. He did have his problems against slower bowlers and later, as the teams did their homework, the wide would be effectively used to stop his exploits.
While the highlight of his international career would be hitting six sixes off Akira Dananjaya in a T20I — third to do so after Herschel Gibbs and Yuval Singh. He was a part of the 2012 ICC T20 World Cup winning West Indies squad. He never played Test cricket.
While he had three hundreds in ODI's, Pollard was never the same player for the West indies as he has been for Mumbai Indians or for that matter the other franchises for which he has plied his trade during all these years. He did have his problems against slower bowlers and later, as the teams did their homework, the wide would be effectively used to stop his exploits.
While the highlight of his international career would be hitting six sixes off Akira Dananjaya in a T20I — third to do so after Herschel Gibbs and Yuval Singh. He was a part of the 2012 ICC T20 World Cup winning West Indies squad. He never played Test cricket.
While he had three hundreds in ODI's, Pollard was never the same player for the West indies as he has been for Mumbai Indians or for that matter the other franchises for which he has plied his trade during all these years. He did have his problems against slower bowlers and later, as the teams did their homework, the wide would be effectively used to stop his exploits.
While the highlight of his international career would be hitting six sixes off Akira Dananjaya in a T20I — third to do so after Herschel Gibbs and Yuval Singh. He was a part of the 2012 ICC T20 World Cup winning West Indies squad. He never played Test cricket.
While he had three hundreds in ODI's, Pollard was never the same player for the West indies as he has been for Mumbai Indians or for that matter the other franchises for which he has plied his trade during all these years.
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