Former West Indies captain Kieron Pollard has expressed shock and disappointment with the crew’s early exit from the continuing T20 World Cup 2022, stating all of the stakeholders should share the blame.
Notably, the two-times champion West Indies did not qualify for the Super 12 stage of the multi-team match after going through defeats towards Scotland and Ireland within the first spherical.
“A bit surprised, to be honest, that [West Indies] weren’t able to get over the line against the other teams. But again, that speaks volumes of where our cricket as is at the moment. I feel it. I feel it for the guys because they are the ones that are going to get the bashing. And it’s not all their fault,” mentioned Pollard at i95.5fm, a Trinidadian radio station.
While the specialists and followers criticised Nicholas Pooran and his troops for his or her below-average efficiency, Pollard had a unique opinion. He reckoned that picks performed a serious position of their depressing present on the 2021 T20 World Cup as nicely, the place he was the captain, an analogous factor occurred this yr as nicely.
“We have a young captain, we have young players, guys who would have played only a handful of (matches in) T20 cricket, and now they are in the World Cup. And when I look back at it, I sit back, and I have a smile on my face. Because I remember some of the things that was said last year around this time when some individuals weren’t selected. I just had to remind these people that there was a World Cup we were going to (in 2021) and another bilateral series (in New Zealand). And now some of the individuals get the opportunity to play in the World Cup. And, again, look what has happened. It’s no fault of theirs,” he added.
