Kieron Pollard

Affectionately known as “Polly”, Kieron Pollard is a cricketer from Trinidad and Tobago. In limited-overs cricket, he was the captain of the West Indies team. In the CPL, he was the captain of the Trinbago Knight Riders. After doing well in the Champions League in 2009, both the Southern Redbacks and Somerset signed Pollard for their Twenty20 seasons. He played for Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier League in 2010.

Pollard played his first game for Trinidad and Tobago against the Cayman Islands in July 2006. It was a Twenty20 match. In the semi-final against Nevis, he was the star, scoring 83 runs in just 38 balls, including 7 sixes, to get Trinidad and Tobago into the final. Six months later, Pollard made his first-class debut against Barbados, and he scored a hundred to mark the event. As in the Twenty20, a lot of his runs came from fours and sixes.

Pollard was named captain of the One Day International (ODI) and Twenty20 International (T20I) teams for the West Indies in September 2019. He became the first cricketer to play in 500 Twenty20 games in March 2020. In 2021, he hit six sixes in one over bowled by Akila Dananjaya during a game against Sri Lanka. He was the third batsman in international cricket to do this, after Herschelle Gibbs and Yuvraj Singh. Against India in February 2022, Pollard became the first West Indian cricketer to play in 100 T20I games. He retired from international cricket in April of that year.