File photo of Kieron Pollard© BCCI
Former West Indies captain Kieron Pollard became the first cricketer to play 600 T20 matches on Monday. The hard hitter achieved the landmark during his side’s London Spirit match against Manchester Originals during the ongoing The Hundred tour at Lord’s. Pollard made sure to make the occasion memorable. He hit an unbeaten 34 off just 11 balls consisting of one four and four huge sixes.
Pollard has some great T20I stats. He has scored 11,723 runs in 600 matches at an average of 31.34. He has an individual best of 104. Pollard has scored one century and 56 half-centuries in the format. He has also taken 309 wickets with best bowling figures of 4/15.
Over the years, Pollard has represented many T20 teams/franchises, most notably the West Indies, domestic team Trinidad and Tobago, Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier League (IPL), Adelaide Strikers and Melbourne Renegades in the Big Bash League, Dhaka Gladiators and Dhaka Dynamites. in Bangladesh Premier League (BPL), Karachi Kings, Multan Sultans and Peshawar Zalmi in Pakistan Super League, Trinbago Knight Riders in Caribbean Premier League (CPL) etc.
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Behind him are players Dwayne Bravo (543 matches), Shoaib Malik (472), Chris Gayle (463) and Ravi Bopara (426).
Coming into the match, Pollard’s attack powered his side to 160/6 in 100 balls. Contributions also came from captain Eoin Morgan (37) and opener Zak Crawley (41). Manchester Originals could only manage 108 runs before they ran out of batting. Phil Salt was its top scorer with 36 runs while Jordan Thompson 4/21 was the top scorer for the London Spirit team. London Spirit won the match by 52 runs.
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