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Kieron Pollard

Kieron Adrian Pollard
Kieron pollard training.jpg
Personal information
Born (1987-05-12) 12 May 1987 (age 29)
Tacarigua, Trinidad and Tobago
Nickname Polly
Height 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m)
Batting style Right-handed
Bowling style Right-arm medium-fast
Role All-rounder
International information
National side
ODI debut (cap 134) 10 April 2007 v South Africa
Last ODI 5 October 2016 v Pakistan
ODI shirt no. 55
T20I debut (cap 27) 20 June 2008 v Australia
Last T20I 14 January 2015 v South Africa
T20I shirt no. 55
Domestic team information
Years Team
2006–present Trindad and Tobago
2009-2011 South Australian Redbacks
2010–present Mumbai Indians
2010–2011 Somerset
2012–2013 Dhaka Gladiators
2013–present Barbados Tridents
2014-2017 Adelaide Strikers
2017-present Karachi Kings
Career statistics
Competition ODI T20I FC LA
Matches 91 43 27 121
Runs scored 2042 633 1,584 2,818
Batting average 25.20 22.60 37.71 27.35
100s/50s 3/7 0/2 4/7 3/13
Top score 119 63* 174 119
Balls bowled 1,806 390 811 2,367
Wickets 44 19 14 76
Bowling average 38.11 28.05 31.14 28.09
5 wickets in innings 0 0 1 0
10 wickets in match n/a n/a 0 n/a
Best bowling 3/27 3/30 5/36 4/32
Catches/stumpings 50/– 20/– 42/– 74/–
Source: CricketArchive, 12 April 2015

Kieron Adrian Pollard (born 12 May 1987) is a Trinidadian cricketer who plays for the West Indies. An aggressive all-rounder, Pollard provides Slow Medium pace bowling and big-hitting from the middle-order. After shining during the 2009 Champions League, he was signed by both the Southern Redbacks and Somerset for their domestic Twenty20 campaigns. He was the joint highest paid player in the 2010 Indian Premier League, playing for Mumbai Indians. He was not selected for the west indies team in ICC WT20 held in India. But, his 2016 career had been more affirmative and aggressive.He was named in the 15 member squad against 2016 Pakistan tour.

Pollard was born in Trinidad and Tobago, where he was raised, along with two younger sisters, in a poor home by his single mother. Speaking about it, Pollard reflects "It was pretty tough, it wasn't ideal getting up and your mum say 'We only have X amount of money'." After representing Trinidad and Tobago in the 2005 TCL Group West Indies Under-19 Challenge, he was selected as part of the West Indies Under-19 cricket team to tour Pakistan. Pollard top-scored for the West Indies in the first youth One Day International (ODI), scoring 53 runs off 49 balls. Pollard made another half-century in the second match, but didn't manage to make double figures in either of last two games. He was named in the West Indies squad for the 2006 U/19 Cricket World Cup, held in Sri Lanka, where he only managed to make 19–runs in his four innings, though he did manage to take two wickets in a defeat to Australia.

During the 2006 English season he came to England to play for Haxey CC in Lincolnshire; he played five games for the club before he was recalled by Trinidad and Tobago to play in the Stanford Twenty20. Pollard made his senior debut for Trinidad and Tobago in the twenty20 competition against the Cayman Islands in July 2006. He finished the tournament with a respectable return of six wickets, and starred in the semi-final against Nevis, scoring 83 runs off just 38 balls, an innings which included 7 sixes to book Trinidad and Tobago's place in the final. He made his first-class debut six months later against Barbados, and marked the occasion with a century. As in the Twenty20, his innings contained a large number of boundaries, with 86 of his 126 runs coming from either fours or sixes. A score of 46 not out on his List A debut ensured that Pollard was in the selector's minds for the upcoming World Cup, and he described it as "a dream come true" when he was selected in the provisional 30-man squad for the tournament. Pollard's "dream run" continued with half-centuries in both four-day and 50-over matches against Guyana, followed by his second first-class century, coming against the Leeward Islands. Against Jamaica, Pollard showed his bowling ability, claiming four wickets in his seven overs to claim his fifth man of the match award in his 15th senior match. Trinidad and Tobago remained unbeaten in the 2006–07 KFC Cup, beating Windward Islands in the final to claim the trophy. Pollard finished as the competition's leading run-scorer, making 261 runs from his seven innings at an average of over 40.


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