Having announced his retirement from
international cricket, Kieron Pollard’s
career should now be regarded as one
of the greatest ever by a West Indian in
whiteball cricket. Here are the numbers
from his outstanding career:
224– International matches Pollard played in his
career over 15 years. That’s the second-highest in
men’s international cricket without a Test cap. David
Miller remains ahead of Pollard, with 238 matches
played across ODIs and T20Is.
101 – Number of T20Is played by Pollard, making
him the most-capped men’s cricketer for West Indies
in the format. He is also the only player to feature in
100-plus matches in men’s T20Is without a Test cap.
2 – Pollard is one of two players to six sixes in an over
in T20Is. He struck six sixes in Akila Dananjaya’s third
over during the first T20I of the three-match series
in 2021. Yuvraj Singh was the first to record the feat,
having hit six sixes off Stuart Broad during the 2007
World T20.
1.2 – Sixes hit per innings by Pollard in ODI cricket,
the best sixes-per-innings ratio in the format for any
player (minimum of 100 sixes). Pollard, on average,
hits a six every 21.23 balls in ODIs, the second-best
ratio of any batter after Shahid Afridi (19.64 balls).
135 – Sixes hit by Pollard in ODI cricket, the
second-highest for West Indies in the format. Only
Chris Gayle is ahead of Pollard with 330 sixes in his
298-match ODI career for West Indies.
3 – Pollard is one of three players with more sixes
than the number of fours they hit in T20I cricket
(players with 50-plus sixes). In his 101-match career,
Pollard struck 99 sixes, five more than the 94 fours
he hit. Andre Russell hit 62 sixes but only 42 fours,
while Evin Lewis hit 110 sixes against 106 fours in the
format.
99 – Sixes for Pollard in T20Is, the third-highest by
any player for West Indies in the format, as only Gayle
and Lewis are ahead with 124 and 110, respectively.
Only seven batters have hit more sixes than Pollard
in Men’s T20Is.
Source: Cricinfo