All-rounder Kieron Pollard on Monday was named skipper of the West Indies ODI and T20I team taking over from Jason Holder and Carlos Brathwaite, respectively. However, Holder will continue to lead the team in the red-ball game.
“Jason Holder was called by me yesterday morning and we spoke,” Cricket West Indies president Ricky Skerritt said in a statement as quoted by ESPNCricinfo.
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“He’s (Holder) a very important force and is still going to be our red-ball captain. Holder will now compete for a place in Pollard’s team and use this as an opportunity to become a better cricketer. Pollard is the right man at the right time to take our white-ball teams forward,” he said at the press conference while sitting next to Pollard.
“What impressed me the most about Pollard was his keenness and commitment to give back to the game.”
The decision was taken after the conclusion of a quarterly board meeting in Tobago, according to the Cricinfo report.
32-year-old Pollard has played 101 ODIs and 62 T20 Internationals, having scored 2289 and 903 runs, respectively.
Pollard’s opening assignment as captain will be against Afghanistan in November in India, where they will play three T20Is and three ODIs before a one-off Test.
