Mumbai Indians (MI) legend Kieron Pollard has begun his new function with the five-time IPL champions as their batting coach forward of the IPL 2023 season. Pollard had earlier claimed that he was by no means going to play for some other group other than MI and had made the powerful resolution of hanging up his boots and never going again into the public sale pool.
The previous West Indies skipper additionally opened up on the affect that MI has had on his skilled profession and the feelings which might be related to it. He feels his function stays the identical, which is to be a agency assist to the gamers within the squad.
In a video on Mumbai Indians’ YouTube channel, this is what Kieron Pollard needed to say about his coaching session as batting coach:
“I’ve informed them don’t name me coach, name me Polly. Phrases actually can’t describe the sensation of taking part in for Mumbai Indians and representing the individuals of Mumbai.
“They’ve achieved quite a bit for me as a person and I assume I’ve achieved quite a bit for them from a participant’s perspective, the bond now we have I assume it’s extra than simply cricket matches and issues like that. For me nothing will change, I’ll be the identical type of persona and character, across the guys.”
MI children react to Kieron Pollard’s teaching function
The video additionally confirmed the reactions of younger MI stars like Tilak Varma, Hrithik Shokeen and Ramandeep Singh talking on their expertise of working with Kieron Pollard as batting coach.
Shokeen made a tongue-in-cheek touch upon Pollard not wanting himself to be known as the ‘coach’. He stated:
“I used to bowl to him quite a bit through the nets, I used to be actually lacking him, I’m going to tease him somewhat and name him ‘Coach’ generally.”
Varma spoke about how he feels about taking part in alongside Kieron Pollard and batting underneath his supervision. He stated:
“Final yr I used to be sharing dressing room with him and this yr I’m very excited, like he’s now our batting coach.”
Ramandeep opened up on the function Pollard performed throughout his first season for MI final yr and hailed him as his ‘huge brother’. He said:
“At any time when I used to be in hassle he was all the time there to information me and he would love a giant brother come to me with concepts which you can go along with this plan.”
MI haven’t received their first sport of an IPL season for 11 years in a row and want to change that towards the Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) on April 2.
