kieron pollard Profile - ICC Profile, Age, Career Info & Stats.
kieron pollard is a cricketer(sportsman) from West Indies. His ICC profile, age, career info & stats are given below.
Full Name
Kieron Adrian Pollard
Born
May 12, 1987, Tacarigua, Trinidad
Age
36 years old
Batting Style
Right hand Bat
Bowling Style
Right arm Medium
Playing Role
Batting Allrounder
Batting Stats
Mohammed Shami
Bowling Stats
Shreyas Iyer
Teams he has played for:
- West Indies
- Adelaide Strikers
- Australian Cricketers Association All-Stars
- Barbados Tridents
- Bravo XI
- Cape Cobras
- Deccan Gladiators
- Dhaka Dynamites
- Dhaka Gladiators
- Karachi Kings
- Kerala Kings
- London Spirit (Men)
- Melbourne Renegades
- MI Emirates
- MI New York
- Multan Sultans
- Mumbai Indians
- PCA Masters XI
- Peshawar Zalmi
- Pollard XI
- RR Sarwan's XI
- SC Joseph's XI
- Somerset
- South Australia
- St Lucia Stars
- Stanford Superstars
- Toronto Nationals
- Trinbago Knight Riders
- Trinidad
- Trinidad & Tobago XI
- Welsh Fire (Men)
- West Indies Under-19s
- WICB President's Celebrity XI
Heres what CricBuzz says about him.
That coming of age performance brought instant recognition and he was picked up by South Australia to play for them in the Big Bash. He was picked up by the Mumbai Indians in a silent tie-breaker for an undisclosed amount after the bidding process had reached the highest limit of $750,000.
He turned down a central contract from the West Indian board so that he could play T20s all over the world as a freelancer. Yet the West Indian board selected him for the ODIs and the T20s, giving him the permission to play in the IPL. Pollard had an ordinary 2011 and 2012 IPL and failed miserably with the bat. However, he came back with a bang the next year, scoring 420 runs and picking up 10 wickets from 18 matches as MI surged to the title in 2013. He was also the Man of the Final in 2013.
An aggressive batsman, with a penchant to clear the boundary with ease, he relies on hitting the ball out of the park. He is a little susceptible against spinners and often gets out to them unable to pick which way it is going. A dibbly-dobbly medium pacer, he often rolls his fingers over the ball and bowls his leg cutters on a consistent basis. As a fielder, Pollard is one of the best in the world and has taken some unbelievable catches. An all-round fielder who can field at any position, he uses his long reach to good effect.
It was only a matter of time before he hit his straps in the Indian T20 League. His uncanny knack of plundering biggies at will prompted Mumbai to retain him so far.
One of the most sought after players in the shortest form of the game, Pollard has also plied his trade for Somerset, Dhaka Gladiators and Barbados Tridents.
On the international stage he has shown the occasional flashes of brilliance like brutal second ODI ton (102) against a strong Aussie bowling attack at home in St Lucia. His maiden ODI hundred, which came against India was also a special effort, but Pollard failed to deliver the goods on a consistent basis. Having been branded as an ODI specialist, Pollard has been perpetually overlooked for Tests. Besides, injuries have reduced his workload as a bowler. He then missed the tour to New Zealand and the T20 Cup in Bangladesh because of fitness issues.
Kieron Pollard along with Dwayne Bravo did not feature in the West Indies 15-man squad for the 2015 World Cup. Their exclusion was widely slammed by critics and experts. Determined to get back in the West Indies team, Pollard responded, \"Despite the omission, I'm definitely not thinking that my international career is over. No way. I'm only 27 and I want to come back with a vengeance.\"
Pollard is often in and out of the national team but continues to be a great asset across various T20 leagues.
by Cricbuzz staff
Heres what ESPNcricinfo says about him.
Kieron Pollard had a batting average of 11.30 from 15 ODIs and 17.20 from 10 T20Is when he became the joint-biggest buy at the IPL player auction in January 2010. Mumbai Indians weren't paying $750,000 (plus an undisclosed amount to break a tie with three other franchises) for Pollard's international record; they were shelling out all that money for the fearsome hitting power he had shown in domestic T20 action - most notably while smashing 54 off 18 balls for T&T against New South Wales during the 2009 Champions League T20.
That IPL auction signaled a shift in the world game and, in the months ahead, Pollard continued to show how much ground franchise cricket had gained on the international game. He opted out of the West Indies A team in order to play T20s for Somerset and then refused a WICB central contract, since signing it would mean making himself available at all times for West Indies.
Over the next few years, Pollard improved his international record, scoring a pair of half-centuries at the 2011 World Cup and then, later that year, breaking his century duck by slamming a 110-ball 119 in a crisis situation against India in Chennai. There were plenty of explosive T20 finishes as well, including a 15-ball 38 that put the 2012 World T20 semi-final well beyond Australia's reach.
But through it all, the canvas of franchise cricket remained the best medium to showcase the hulking Pollard's unbridled hitting - with his top hand frequently slipping off the bat handle even as the ball disappeared far over wide long-on - and canny medium-pace. Mumbai retained Pollard after his first season for them and he rewarded their faith in his abilities with, among other match-winning performances, an unbeaten 32-ball 60 that gave them their maiden IPL title.
Though widely considered a limited-overs specialist, Pollard has expressed a desire to play Test cricket, and has a fairly good first-class record behind him, including a whirlwind 126 on debut for Trinidad and Tobago against Barbados. But that call-up has yet to materialise.
Pollard was left out of West Indies' ODI team in December 2014, ahead of a series in South Africa. His axing - along with Darren Sammy and Dwayne Bravo - came soon after West Indies pulled out of their tour of India with an ODI, a T20 and three Tests still remaining, due to a dispute with the board and the players' association over payment structures.
Pollard returned to international cricket in June 2016 with an improved defensive technique and the stomach for a fight. Against South Africa, he took the score from 21 for 4 to a match-winning 285. The 156-run partnership he shared with Darren Bravo is West Indies' best for the fifth wicket. He has also led Barbados Tridents to the CPL title in 2014, they finished runners-up in 2015.
Karthik Krishnaswamy