'Dil Tutda unhe he pata lagda' - Fans react as Kieron Pollard post cryptic story on Instagram

Former West Indies player Kieron Pollard has posted a cryptic story on Instagram. He retired from international cricket in April 2022, followed by retirement from IPL cricket early last year. In the 2022 season, he played for half of the tournament but the runs dried up. Pollard was one of the four retained players ahead of the 2022 mega auction.

The right-hander not delivering with the bat was one of the reasons why the five-time winners didn't qualify for the playoffs and finished last. In the following season, the 2012 T20 World Cup winner started working as a batting coach of the team. Apart from this, he is also part of the coaching staff in MI's subsidiary in the USA, MI New York. 

Meanwhile, at a time when the former IPL champions are being criticized for replacing Rohit Sharma as captain with Hardik Pandya, Pollard has posted a cryptic Instagram story.

Kieron Pollard's Instagram story. pic.twitter.com/4fyml5GPf7

— Mufaddal Vohra (@mufaddal_vohra) January 7, 2024

Kieron Pollard started and finished his IPL career with Mumbai Indians

Notably, the Trinidadian player was identified during the inaugural season of Champions League T20 in 2009. He played for Trinidad and Tobago Red Force and the team lost the final against New South Wales. In the 2010 player auction, he was brought by MI. Till 2022, he played for the same team before retiring

Mumbai Indians

Retained Players: Akash Madhwal, Arjun  Tendulkar, Hardik Pandya (T) (C), Dewald Brevis, Ishan Kishan, Jason Behrendorff, Jasprit Bumrah, Kumar Kartikeya Singh, N. Tilak Varma, Nehal Wadhera, Piyush Chawla, Rohit Sharma, Romario Shepherd (T), Shams Mulani, Surya Kumar Yadav, Tim David, Vishnu Vinod

Signed during the auction: 

Gerald Coetzee, Nuvan Thushara, Dilshan Madushanka, Anshul Kamboj, Naman Dhir, Shreyas Gopal, Mohammad Nabi, Shivalik Sharma

This is how Twitter reacted

According to my sources in MI whatsApp group former captain paid Pollard to post this.. The former captain also posted his first tweet after 2022 wc loss for pollards retirement.. They have been loyal to each other so polly is returning favour by joining team45 hype😭💀

— Archer (@poserarcher) January 7, 2024

Time for Bumrah to tweet this 🤣🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/J6rh9boS4Y

— Kirkett (@bhaskar_sanu08) January 7, 2024

West indies player talking about loyalty who take retirement for playing league matches.

— ᴅɪʙʏᴀ 𝕏 (@kohlixfear18) January 7, 2024

Is he referring to him? pic.twitter.com/RmCqycRfnc

— Karthik (@vsk_says) January 7, 2024

Shame on Rohit Sharma who forced him to retire when the actual burden on the team was himself 💔.

— Sai Krishna💫 (@SaiKingkohli) January 7, 2024

Everything is happening because of hardik Landya

— Sankott (@Iamsankot) January 7, 2024

Not a single person happy with Mumbai Indians decision 💔 one family end💔💔

— 𝐑𝐮𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐢𝐢⁴⁵🥂 (@rushiii_12) January 7, 2024

Pollard bhai 🤧🤧 pic.twitter.com/xrIJrDYlmh

— Simple man (@ArbazAh87590755) January 7, 2024

Damn!! I expected Polly to stay neutral on this matter since Hardik -Polly-Krunal have a very good brother like bonding but he also stood for Rohit wow😍

— cute one-liners (@cuteoneliners) January 7, 2024

Some people will only love u as much as they can use u۔۔Their loyalty ends where the benefits stop۔۔!!!❤️👌❤️

— Zuhair (@zuh_dxb) January 7, 2024