Kieron Pollard calls time on international career

The West Indies will need to look for a white-ball cricket captain in short order after Kieron Pollard announced his retirement from international cricket earlier today.

Pollard in a video message on Instagram, said, that his decision came after careful deliberation and that representing the West Indies, for him, had been an honour.

The big all-rounder played 123 One-Day Internationals for the West Indies from 2007 to 2022, scoring 2,706 runs at an average of 26.01.

Those statististics include three centuries and 55 wickets.

In T20Is, Pollard scored 1569 runs, striking at a healthy 135.14 with a high score of 75 not out.

Pollard's 224 international games is the second most of any international cricketer to have never played Test cricket.

Only South Africa's David Miller has played more.

Pollard became captain of the West Indies white-ball teams in 2019 and led the side to series wins against Afghanistan in India, Ireland at home, Sri Lanka both home and away, and recently against England in the Caribbean.

The former skipper led West Indies in both format through 61 games, winning 25 and losing 31.

Pollard was also part of the West Indies team that won the T20 World Cup in Sri Lanka in 2012.

The all-rounder is also one of only three players to hit six sixes in a T20I, doing so against Sri Lankan spinner Akila Dananjaya last year.

South Aftica's Herschelle Gibbs and India's Yuvraj Singh are the only other batsmen to have done so.