Flop ODI XI of the year 2020
So, who are these players, and more importantly- what lies ahead for them?
6. Kieron Pollard
2020 has been a weird year in a lot more ways than one can think of. But in terms of cricket, one particularly peculiar observation is that a lot of players who did well in T20(I)s ended up having lean ODI seasons.
West Indies LOI captain Kieron Pollard falls into a similar bracket of players. The explosive Trinidadian all-rounder was involved in as many as two T20 leagues win this year- first with the Trinibago Knight Riders, and then the Mumbai Indians. Not to mention, he also led the men-in-maroon to a dominating, 2-0 whitewash in the Sri Lanka tour’s T20I leg.
Having said that, Pollard’s form in 50-overs cricket turned out to be less than inspiring. He played six ODI matches, got to bat in five of them, and could only accumulate a grand total of 98 runs. His average and strike-rate too aren’t much impressive either, reading 24.50 and 108.88 respectively.
With the ball, he could collect just a solitary wicket, which, consequently, skyrockets his bowling average to 808 this year. Despite all those blushes, Pollard has done an exceptional job in leading the West Indies in his one-year-old leadership stint. He will be eager to move on and focus on the year coming ahead, which has got some big challenges lined up for his Caribbean comrades.
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