West Indies Gets New Captain After Disastrous World Cup Performance!

After West Indies finished ninth among ten teams in the ICC World Cup 2019, the team management has reportedly sacked Jason Holder and Carlos Brathwaite from limited-overs captaincy and replaced them with Kieron Pollard.

The team also suffered defeat to India in the recently concluded T20I (0-3) and ODI (0-2) series at home.

According to a report in the Trinidad and Tobago Guardian, the decision was taken by the Cricket West Indies Board of Directors on Saturday during their two-day quarterly meet in Port-of-Spain. When the selection committee put forward Pollard’s name, six directors backed him while the other six abstained.

While Pollard is a regular in T20Is, he has not played an ODI for almost three years now. His last ODI appearance was in October 2016. However, the 32-year-old all-rounder is the top run-getter in the ODI series against India.

Pollard has played 101 ODI matches scoring 2289 runs which include three centuries and nine half-centuries. In T2OI, he has 903 runs to his name from 62 matches.