Windies' Pollard still has Test debut in mind

West Indies all-rounder Kieron Pollard says he still hopes to make the Test side one day, despite being considered an exclusively short format player and racking up 85 ODI and 37 T20I caps.

Pollard, one of the in-demand players in T20 leagues around the world, is part of the Windies' provisional squad for the World Twenty20, but hopes to one day do enough to get a call to the five-day side.

When asked if he was a T20 specialist, Pollard told Cricinfo: "Of course not. Everybody says I'm big and strong and suited to it, but when you look at cricket, the game is changing so much.

"A few years ago they said David Warner was a T20 specialist but look what he has achieved in Test cricket. Think back to why I was called up in the first place to the West Indies side too. It was because I made centuries in four-day cricket. I'm not a specialist.
'(My dream) was to play international cricket, but Test cricket was huge as a child. It's what you got up at 6 o'clock in the morning to watch. My ambitions are still the same - to pull on the whites for my nation.
"Yes, I've played a lot of one-day and T20 cricket, but the ambition to play in the Test team is there. I'm not an old guy just yet. I don't know how close I am. I might be a way off - I don't know.
"I'm highly unlikely to play a full season of first-class cricket, so my only way of playing is by performing well in the ODIs. I could be wrong but that's the way I think I can do it."
Pollard has been out of action for a while with a knee injury, and is in England working on his rehab: "It's getting there. I'm doing a lot of work in London to sort it but I don't want to rush back.
"It's six hours a day at the moment. I'm a sportsman and I want to be playing, I want to be on the park."