TE24 Sports Desk:
Nicholas Pooran will succeed the resigned Kieron Pollard as West Indies’ restricted overs captain, the locale’s cricket board reported on Tuesday.
The 34-year-old Pollard resigned from global cricket the month before.
Pooran drove the side in Pollard’s nonattendance during last year’s T20 series prevail upon Australia.
“I’m following the strides of a few goliaths of the game who have made an astonishing heritage for West Indies cricket,” Pooran, 26, said in a Cricket West Indies proclamation.
“To be named chief is without a doubt the feature of my vocation up until this point and I need to drive the group forward to get extraordinary things done on the field for our fans and steadfast allies.”
Wicketkeeper Pooran, likewise a damaging hitter, is as of now playing for Sunrisers Hyderabad in the Indian Premier League.
“We accept Nicholas is prepared for the test of driving our white ball groups given his experience, exhibitions, and the regard he has inside the playing bunch,” said Windies overseer of cricket Jimmy Adams.
“The experience he has assembled playing in different establishment associations all over the planet was additionally a component in the choice to suggest him for the T20 captaincy.”
Pooran’s most memorable installation in the job is supposed to be three one-day internationals in the Netherlands not long from now. The current year’s T20 World Cup in Australia begins in October.
