Kieron Pollard declares retirement from worldwide cricket

West Indies white-ball captain Kieron Pollard on Wednesday introduced his retirement from worldwide cricket although he’ll proceed to freelance in personal T20 and T10 leagues throughout the globe.

If one tries to sum up Pollard’s worldwide profession in a nutshell, he might be termed as a perennial underachiever in maroon jersey.

The 34-year-old Pollard, who made his ODI debut again in 2007, fittingly performed his final collection towards India, a rustic which has develop into his second dwelling on account of his lengthy affiliation with Mumbai Indians.

“Hi all, after careful deliberation, I have decided to retire from international cricket. It was a dream of mine to play for West Indies since I was a 10-year-old boy and I am proud to represent the West Indies for over 15 years in T20 and ODI format of the game,” Pollard introduced on his official instagram web page.

While he’s a feared T20 cricketer, one of many best that the world has seen, his numbers for the West Indies stay underwhelming with solely 2706 runs at simply above 26 and 55 wickets from 123 ODIs together with 1569 runs from 101 T20Is at a median of shade over 25. He additionally took 44 wickets.

One of the most important six hitters, there wasn’t a bowler in world cricket who didn’t worry bowling fuller deliveries to Pollard in his prime and in addition the yorkers which might be effortlessly dug-out for straight sixes.

He did have his issues towards slower bowlers and later because the groups did their homework, the large yorker could be successfully used to cease his exploits.

While the spotlight of his worldwide profession could be hitting six sixes of Akila Dananjaya in a T20I — third to take action after Herschelle Gibbs and Yuvraj Singh. He was part of the 2012 ICC T20 World Cup successful West Indies squad. He by no means performed Test cricket.

A legend bids farewell to worldwide cricket.

Kieron Pollard has referred to as time on a rare West Indies profession.

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While he had three a whole bunch in ODIs, Pollard was by no means the identical participant for the Windies as he has been for Mumbai Indians or for that matter the opposite franchises for which he has plied his commerce throughout all these years.

Perhaps, it was West Indies cricket’s monetary crunch that at all times made Pollard realise his priorities and that’s the explanation each time he got here to signify the nationwide aspect, he was by no means at his finest.

An affidavit to that may be 99 sixes in 101 T20Is, lower than a six per sport and in the course of the later years, his bowling prowess dipped significantly as he fancied himself as a late-order hitter.

As he’s closing in on his thirty fifth birthday, Pollard is aware of that he would want to maximise his earnings by enjoying leagues all around the world and within the submit COVID world, it is vitally troublesome for a household man to hop from one bio-bubble to a different with extra burden of worldwide cricket making the job doubly troublesome.