England appoint former West Indies captain Kieron Pollard to coaching staff for T20 World Cup in Caribbean and USA

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England have appointed former West Indies captain Kieron Pollard as an assistant coach for the Males’s T20 World Cup within the Caribbean and USA subsequent June.

Pollard was a part of the West Indies sides that gained the 2012 T20 World Cup in Sri Lanka and has made a report 637 appearances throughout all T20 cricket internationally and domestically.

England hope the 36-year-old will present native data as they appear to efficiently defend the title they gained below coach Matthew Mott and captain Jos Buttler in Australia in 2022.

England first gained the T20 World Cup within the Caribbean in 2010, defeating Australia within the ultimate.

Pollard amassed over 12,000 runs and took greater than 300 wickets throughout his prolonged T20 profession, successful the Indian Premier League 5 occasions with Mumbai Indians (2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2020).

The Trinidadian performed 101 T20 internationals for West Indies between 2008 and 2022, scoring 1,500 runs, together with six half-centuries, and taking 42 wickets.

Pollard smashed six sixes in an over off Sri Lanka spinner Akila Dananjaya throughout a T20 worldwide in 2021, changing into the third man to realize the feat in worldwide cricket, after India’s Yuvraj Singh off England’s Stuart Broad and South Africa’s Herschelle Gibbs off Netherlands’ Daan van Bunge.

The 2024 T20 World Cup runs between June 4-30, reside on Sky Sports activities, with the fixtures to be launched sooner or later.

England have simply accomplished a five-match T20 worldwide sequence within the Caribbean, overwhelmed 3-2 by the hosts after a four-wicket defeat within the deciding recreation in Trinidad.

Buttler’s crew had fallen 2-0 down within the sequence solely to stage the rating at 2-2 as opener Phil Salt scored back-to-back centuries, along with his 119 from 57 balls within the fourth match powering his facet to their highest T20I complete of 267-3.