Kieron Pollard by CricketArchive

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Player:

KA Pollard

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DateLine: 13th May 2009

 

Another find of the Stanford T20 tournament, Pollard is an all-rounder for Trinidad and Tobago who bowls right-arm medium-fast and bats right-handed, making him absolutley fit for the shortest format of the game. Pollard, who represented West Indies in the 2006 Under-19 World Cup, became an overnight star when he hit 83 for his native Trinidad and Tobago in the Stanford 20/20 in August 2006, and then substantiated the performance with another swashbuckling knock of 126 on his first-class debut. The surprise package though was not that he scored a hundred but the way he scored it. He took just 71 balls and smashed six sixes in the process. He has played four T20 internationals and has scored runs at an average of 24.50 but again it is not the number of runs that he has scored but the strike rate which has made news. His strike rate is a whopping 169 odd and this suggests that if he gets into the killer mode in the T20 World Cup, a lot of teams would not find places to hide. Apart from being very dangerous with the willow, Pollard is equally good with the leather in his hands. His average is 25 in the ODI's and a tad better 22 in the T20 format.