KA Pollard

The arrival

KA Pollard's first BBL season was 2012-13, with Adelaide Strikers.

That first season brought 5 matches, 129 runs and 5 wickets at 8.48 an over.

The peak

The high point with the bat was 2016-17, for Adelaide Strikers: 145 runs at an average of 18.1, striking at 146.5 in a season when the league as a whole struck at 129.2, and a highest score of 47.

With the ball, the best season was 2016-17, for Adelaide Strikers: 7 wickets at 8.21 runs an over, while the league's bowlers went for 7.65.

Club by club

2012-13 to 2016-17, Adelaide Strikers. 17 matches, 302 runs and 12 wickets.

2017-18, Melbourne Renegades. 4 matches, 67 runs and 4 wickets.

2 spells with two clubs in all. The longest was with Adelaide Strikers, 2012-13 to 2016-17. 2013-14 and 2015-16 are missing from the record: seasons without a BBL appearance.

Bat, ball and method

Across the career, KA Pollard struck at 144.1. The league around those same seasons, weighted by how much batting each one involved, struck at 123.5, so KA Pollard scored about 21 runs per hundred balls faster than the typical batter of the time. 60% of the runs came in fours and sixes: 25 fours and 20 sixes.

With the ball, 16 wickets in 243 deliveries, at 8.57 runs an over against a league rate of 7.30 for the same seasons: 1.26 an over more expensive than the typical bowler of the time, the price of a bowler who took wickets often.

The legacy

KA Pollard made 21 BBL appearances, the last for Melbourne Renegades in 2017-18.