Kieron Pol­lard has re­it­er­at­ed his com­mit­ment to West In­dies de­spite be­com­ing a Twen­ty20 crick­eter for hire as he trav­els the world play­ing the short­est for­mat. How­ev­er, the all­rounder added that dras­tic changes were need­ed to the way the game was run in the Caribbean. Pol­lard drew an an­gry re­sponse from the West In­dies Crick­et Board af­ter he de­clined a place on the A-team tour of Eng­land in favour of his Friends Prov­i­dent T20 deal with Som­er­set, but he be­lieves he was com­plete­ly with­in his rights to make that de­ci­sion be­cause we wasn't on a re­tain­er con­tract with the WICB.

"I don't want go in­to that too much, it's a fair­ly unique sit­u­a­tion I found my­self in," he told Cricin­fo. "Things haven't gone smooth­ly in West In­dies in re­cent times and a lot of things need to be fixed. But it was about me be­ing a pro­fes­sion­al sports­man and I will al­ways be com­mit­ted to the West In­dies team when­ev­er I am called up. "It's my dream to play Test crick­et and that will nev­er change," he added. "At the mo­ment it is Twen­ty20 which has pre­sent­ed it­self as my op­por­tu­ni­ty, but if the chance comes to put the whites on that will be a dream. I'm still young and would love to play for West In­dies in all for­mats."

Pol­lard has been a great suc­cess at Som­er­set with 248 runs at a strike-rate of 177.14 and has claimed 20 wick­ets at 12.45, but he said the re­sults of his coun­ty stint had no bear­ing on how he felt about shun­ning West In­dies A. "I would have stood by my de­ci­sion even if I hadn't per­formed well for Som­er­set. At the end of the day the de­ci­sion has been made and I will stick by it." He has cer­tain­ly left a mark around the coun­ty scene. On his de­but against Mid­dle­sex, at Lord's, he hit 89 off 45 balls which in­clud­ed a mighty six on­to the roof of the pavil­ion. "It was big," he said. "I don't know how many me­tres, but it was a great start."

Pol­lard has tak­en his Twen­ty20 skills around the world over the last year. He was an over­seas play­er for South Aus­tralia, has an IPL con­tract with Mum­bai In­di­ans and now can al­so add Som­er­set to that list. In a few weeks the West In­di­an do­mes­tic Twen­ty20 be­gins and, de­pend­ing on his coun­ty com­mit­ments, Pol­lard is due to ap­pear for T&T, the de­fend­ing cham­pi­ons.