Kieron Pollard, Trinidadian cricketer
Kieron Adrian Pollard (born 12 May 1987) is a Trinidadian cricketer. He captains the West Indies cricket team in limited overs cricket and Trinbago Knight Riders in CPL. He is a right arm medium - fast bowling all-rounder. After shining during the 2009 Champions League, he was signed by both the Southern Redbacks and Somerset for their domestic Twenty20 campaigns. He was the joint highest paid player in the 2010 Indian Premier League, playing for Mumbai Indians.
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, Pollard became the first cricketer to play in 500 Twenty20 matches. While his game is suited for limited overs variety 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.