Kieron Pollard set a special record of 100, not 200, 600 the first player in the world to do so

Kieron Pollard is one of the legends of T20. Recently he retired from international cricket. Although he is still playing in T20 leagues around the world. He is part of the London Spirit team in the ongoing The Hundred in England. He got into a match on Monday night and scored an unbeaten 34 runs at a strike rate of 300. This match was also won by his team. With this, he made a special record. He became the first player in the world to play 600 T20 matches. In May, he celebrated his 35th birthday.

Playing first in the match, London Spirit scored 160 runs for 6 wickets. Opener batsman Jack Kroll scored the highest 41 runs off 34 balls. But Kieron Pollard, who came out to bat at number 5, played an inning. He remained unbeaten on 34 off 11 balls. Hit a four and 4 sixes. In reply, the team of Manchester Originals got out after scoring 108 runs. Captain Jos Buttler could only score 6 runs. Phil Salt scored the highest 36 runs. Fast bowler Jordan Thomson took 4 wickets for 21 runs and became the player of the match.

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11 thousand runs and 300 wickets

Kieran Pollard plays for Mumbai Indians in IPL and he is one of the important players of the team. His record of T20 is excellent. He has scored 11723 runs in 533 innings of 600 matches at an average of 31. He has scored one century and 56 half-centuries. The strike rate is 151. He has also hit more than 780 sixes. At the same time, this fast bowler has also taken 309 wickets at an average of 25. 4 wickets for 15 runs is the best performance. Has done the feat of taking 4 wickets 7 times.

Only Bravo could play 500 matches

Talking about the top-5 players who played the most matches in T20, after Kieron Pollard, the name of another West Indies legend Dwayne Bravo comes. He has played 543 matches. No other player has reached 500 matches. Shoaib Malik of Pakistan has played 472 matches, Chris Gayle of West Indies has played 463 and Ravi Bopara of England has played 426 matches. Talking about India, Rohit Sharma has played the maximum 391 matches.

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