Pak vs WI: Kieron Pollard out of the Pakistan tour due to injury

Kieron Pollard, the West Indies white-ball captain, will miss the next cricket series against Pakistan since he has not fully healed from a hamstring injury experienced during the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup.

In the ODI team, the Cricket West Indies (CWI) Selection Panel has picked Devon Thomas as Pollard’s successor, while in the T20I squad, all-rounder Rovman Powell will take Pollard’s spot.

Pollard will be evaluated in a few weeks before the forthcoming home tours against Ireland and England in January 2022, under the supervision of CWI Chief Medical Officer Dr Israel Dowlat.

Nicholas Pooran will lead the squad in the T20Is now that Pollard is out. When West Indies beat Australia 4-1 in the five-match CG Insurance T20I Series in St Lucia earlier this year, he was the stand-in skipper. For the first time, Shai Hope will lead the team in one-day internationals. Pooran is the ODI deputy captain, while Hope is the T20I vice-captain.

From December 13 to 22, the West Indies will play three T20Is and three ODIs at the Karachi National Stadium. The T20Is begin at 6 p.m. local time (9 a.m. Eastern Caribbean/8 a.m. Jamaica), while the ODIs begin at 1 p.m. local time (4 a.m. Eastern Caribbean/3 a.m. Jamaica).

The ODI series will be West Indies’ fourth of 12 in the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup Super League, in which the top seven sides can qualify for the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup in India in 2023. West Indies are now ranked eighth out of thirteen teams and have the possibility to leapfrog Pakistan into seventh place.