Date discipline tonight!
There was magic in the air when Kieron Adrian Pollard tried to latch on to half a chance at the boundary during an IPL bout between Mumbai Indians and the Kochi Tuskers. Next day, the moment was plastered across national dailies. Had he managed to cling on to the ball, it might have turned out to be the catch of the tournament. But the 6ft 5in cricketer from Trinidad shrugs it off as another day at work. Be realistic “You can’t control everything in life,” says the 23-year-old all-rounder, who is also one of the game’s youngest multimillionaires. “The idea is to try and give it all you have.” Philosophy at such young age might end up sounding like wisecrack unless you have the bills to back it up. But Pollard has come up the hard way. With batting averages of just 12.7 in T20Is and 20.7 ODIs, he is the only cricketer in the world playing in domestic leagues on four different continents – yet, this Twenty20 pin-up doesn’t have his head too high up in the swirling clouds. “Nothing ...