West Indies’ Kieron Pollard plays a shot during the third
One-Day International cricket match between Sri Lanka and
West Indies in Pallekele, Sri Lanka, Sunday, March 1, 2020.
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Caribbean Life, MARCH 12-18, 2021 27
By Nelson A. King
In what has been described
as one of the more ridiculous
Twenty20 run-chases one will
witness, West Indies Captain,
Kieron Pollard became just the
third player to hit six sixes in
an over in international cricket
off the same bowler, Akila Dananjaya,
who had rocked West
Indies’ chase just an over earlier
with a hat-trick in the first of
three T20 matches against Sri
Lanka in Antigua.
`It felt like it was either sixes or
wickets for most of West Indies’
innings as an opening stand of
52 in 3.2 became 52 for 3 when
Evin Lewis, Chris Gayle (on his
comeback) and Nicholas Pooran
fell in three balls to Dananjaya,
according to ESPNcricinfo.
It said that, eight balls later,
Lendl Simmons also departed,
lbw to the impressive Wanindu
Hasaranga, before Pollard’s
immense response.
Facing the next over from
Dananjaya, Pollard joined Herschelle
Gibbs and Yuvraj Singh
in having taken 36 off an over
with some of the shots almost
going out of the small ground in
Antigua, ESPNcricinfo said.
It said West Indies’ powerplay
tally of 98 was also a new
record.
ESPNcricinfo said “the wild
ride continued when Pollard was
also lbw to Hasaranga before
relative calm was brought to the
game’s final minutes by Jason
Holder, who was returning to the
T20I fold.”
Holder’s 29 off 24 balls saw
West Indies home with four
wickets and 41 balls to spare,
after they had limited Sri Lanka
to a sub-par 131 for 9, on what
was a good batting surface, ESPNcricinfo
said.
“Such was the feast and famine
nature of West Indies’ batting
— 75 percent of their runs (102)
came in boundaries off just 19
deliveries,” ESPNcricinfo said.
“So devastating was Pollard’s
innings that it took off most,
if not all, of the sheen off what
would have otherwise been a
dream return to international
cricket for Dananjaya,” it added.
“That said, much of the uncertainty
in West Indies’ chase was
brought on by Hasaranga, whose
back-to-back scalps of Pollard
and Fabian Allen — the hosts
still needed 31 runs with four
wickets in hand at that point —
had sown doubt.”
In the first innings of the raininterrupted
game, ESPNcricinfo
said Obed McCoy’s 2 for 25 was
the pick of the figures.
But it said it was an all-round
effort for West Indies with each
of the six bowlers used picking
up a wicket.
Aside from a brief period when
debutant Pathum Nissanka and
Niroshan Dickwella put on a
51-run second-wicket stand, the
West Indies bowlers were always
in control, ESPNcricinfo said.
“The fact that just the three
boundaries were conceded in
final 10 overs tells its own story,”
it said.
“Holder exercised all his considerable
experience and showed
exactly why the selectors had
chosen to put their faith in him,”
it added. “Utilizing his entire repertoire
of variations – yorkers,
slower balls, slower bouncers,
you name it — he reeled back the
Sri Lanka innings in the middle
overs, just as they would have
been looking to up the scoring.”
ESPNcricinfo said “rarely will
a bowler’s emotions have fluctuated
as wildly on a cricket field as
Dananjaya’s.”
Pollard hits six sixes in an
over in dramatic chase
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