Pollard’s rags to riches tale
Peter English
25-Feb-2013
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Kieron Pollard is the epitome of the Twenty20 generation, but still maintains some old-fashioned values that many traditionalists would find hard to reconcile, Jamie Pandaram writes in the Sydney Morning Herald.
For a boy who grew up in a poor home in Tacarigua, Trinidad, raised by a single mother alongside two younger sisters, this new world presents him with an opportunity. Pollard, 22, wants to ensure his newborn son Kaiden never suffers the hunger he experienced and that his mother is rewarded for her toil.
''My upbringing, I wasn't from a wealthy family,'' Pollard said. ''For me, getting afforded the opportunity to play cricket, and being able to make a lot of money, that drives me you know, because you don't want to end up in that situation again.
In the Age Chloe Saltau looks at the rise of Cameron White, who has gone from Test legspinner to Twenty20 vice-captain in just over a year.
Peter English is former Australasia editor of ESPNcricinfo