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tors on Saturday during their two-day
quarterly meet in Port-of-Spain, the
Trinidad and Tobago capital.
“The selection committee proposed
his name and, when vote was taken,
six directors backed him while the
remaining six abstained,” Cricket-
Country said.
It said while Pollard is a T20I regular,
he hasn’t played an ODI in almost
three years.
“His last ODI appearance was in
October 2016 and, despite calls for his
inclusion, he was left out of the West
Indies squad for the world cup in England,”
CricketCountry said.
It said the 32-year-old batting allrounder
was the top-run getter in the
India T20I series, scoring 115 in three
innings including a half-century.
Pollard has played 101 ODIs, scored
2,289 runs alongside three centuries
and nine half-centuries, CricketCountry
said.
In 62 T20Is, it said Pollard has 903
runs, with three fifties, and boasts of a
career strike-rate of 125.41.
Currently, Pollard is captaining
Trinbago Knight Riders (TKR) in the
ongoing Caribbean Premier League
(CPL) in the absence of allrounder
Dwayne Bravo who will be out of action
for two months following a finger injury,
CricketCountry said.
Barbados striker, Hallam Hope was
one of the players who played in
the match against Guyana though
ineligible. Photo by George Alleyne
By George Alleyne
Barbados football administrators
have this year ensured that they dotted
all the ‘I’s and crossed the ‘T’s in
preparation for the Confederation of
North, Central American and Caribbean
Association Football Nation’s
League that kicks off this week.
In the playoffs last year the Bajans
Tridents had to forfeit a game and
points to Guyana against whom they
had fielded two overseas based players
who were at the time ineligible
because Barbados Football Association
officials had not completed
all the FIFA-stipulated paper-work
for national teams when they used
foreign-born nationals who already
played for another country.
As a result, CONCACAF Disciplinary
Committee slapped the Bajan
Tridents with a forfeiture penalty for
the match played against Guyana on
September 6, 2018, meaning that the
one point they had earned from the
2-2 draw was reduced to zero, and
the Guyanese were awarded three
points.
Last year’s playoff had the double
function of determining seeding for
the inaugural Nations League competition
that kicked off Thursday,
September 5, and runs into 2020;
and of selecting the top 10 teams
for the Gold Cup, the top regional
competition.
Bajan Tridents’ did not make the
Gold cup final 10 owing mainly to
their forfeiture of the game and
points to Guyana, who made it into
that prestigious competition for the
first time.
The Tridents start their Nations
League championship quest ranked
29th of 41 teams this year, and will
play at home against 38th ranked St
Martin Thursday.
“That was yesterday, we are focusing
on the future,” said BFA technical
director Ahmed Mohammed in
comments about last year’s forfeited
game.
“So, our main goal is to build the
squad as strong as we can because we
are always looking to see how many
players we have with Bajan roots or
Bajan nationality. Everybody has the
right to represent Barbados as long
as they are willing. So, the main goal
is to qualify for the 2021 Gold Cup,
and that is why we are working so
hard,” Mohammed added.
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