Kieron Pollard: maverick or mercenary?
Kieron Pollard has not yet made his Test debut for West Indies
“Test cricket is always going to be the ultimate. My ambition is to play in all three formats. Next year, I’m going to play more first-class cricket. I decided not to go to the T20 tournament in South Africa because I wanted to play first-class cricket in the Caribbean. The Sri Lankan league is off now, but I pulled out of that as well.”
You sense that nothing Pollard says will sway his most ardent critics. But for a man accused of destroying Test cricket, he holds a suspiciously strong desire to play it. For someone castigated as a pariah, a philistine, a soldier of fortune, he is in reality something far simpler: just a cricketer. Just a family man, striving to earn a living.
Akhila Ranganna is assistant editor (Audio) at ESPNcricinfo