Kieron Pollard

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Kieron Adrian Pollard (born 12 May 1987) is a Trinidadian cricketer, who captained the West Indies cricket team in limited overs cricket. He used to play in various T20 leagues around the globe as an all-rounder. He also used to captain MI Cape Town, MI Emirates and MI New York in the SA20, ILT20 and MLC respectively. He is currently playing for the Trinbago Knight Riders in the Caribbean Premier League. He is also the batting coach of the Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier League and was the assistant coach of the England cricket team for the ICC Men's T20 World Cup 2024. He was part of the 2012 ICC World Twenty20 winning team for West Indies. During his period, he was one of the most aggressive batsmen and he also has the record of six 6s in an over against Sri Lanka. In September 2019, Pollard was named as the captain of the West Indies One Day International (ODI) and Twenty20 International (T20I) teams. In March 2020, he became the first cricketer to play in 500 Twenty20 matches. His game has been suited for limited overs formats, in which he has enjoyed a long international career; he has never played Test cricket. In a match against Sri Lanka in March 2021, he hit six sixes in one over bowled by Akila Dananjaya and became the third batsman to do so in international cricket after Herschelle Gibbs and Yuvraj Singh. In February 2022, in the second match against India, Pollard became the first cricketer for the West Indies to play in 100 T20I matches. On April 20, 2022, Pollard announced his retirement from international cricket. On November 15, 2022, Pollard announced his retirement from IPL after playing for Mumbai Indians for 13 seasons. He was then appointed as the...