Lewis laughed off the no Ball Incident Pollard

Lewis laughed off the no Ball Incident Pollard

West Indies all-rounder Kieron Pollard has claimed that Evin Lewis laughed off the no-ball incident that made headlines earlier this week during a Caribbean Premier League match. Pollard was accused of bowling a no-ball on purpose when Lewis was batting on 97 off 31 balls. With the scores level had Lewis fetched a boundary, it would have been the second fastest hundred in the format.

Pollard revealed that he had a conversation with the hard-hitting left-hander following the controversy but pointed that he didn't apologise considering he didn't do it on purpose. "I just told him (Lewis) 'well played and good luck in the playoffs', Pollard told Sports Max. "He just laughed it off. Evin Lewis... he came up after me in Trinidad to play cricket. We play cricket together. Our whole management is the same sort of management.

"At the end of the day, (people may claim) Kieron Pollard is jealous of Evin Lewis and things like that. That's not in my nature. I have been the first one to congratulate somebody. I have been the first one to send him a message and always be there no matter what. And this is not going to stop me from continuing to do that.

"We had a conversation. I wouldn't share the exchange of the conversation but we had a couple of Whatsapp messages and it's all cordial. No, I didn't apologise to him. To me, there is nothing to apologise for. We just laughed it off."

Pollard insisted that he was attempting to bowl a short ball in that situation in order to dismiss Lewis even though Barbados Tridents were on the verge of losing the game. "When I took up that ball in that last delivery, I had one thing in my mind - trying to bowl a delivery, my best delivery - what has been working for me throughout the tournament - a short delivery to see if he (will) have a waft at it, to see if it can go up in the air and we can get him out," he pointed out. "Although we would have lost the game, I was still thinking of getting him out, and using my strength, what I had been doing.

"Unfortunately, (the) stride went for that extra, I stepped over the mark and I think that has been the talking point, of what actually happened, the actual no-ball itself."

Pollard claimed that his conscience was clear since he only had an intention to bowl the best possible delivery. "It wasn't intentional, nothing was intentional at any point in time," the 30-year-old reiterated. "I acknowledge that we have lost the game but I am not going to just go there and bowl a ball just for him to hit it for six or four, for him to score hundred in that sense. That's not my nature, and I don't think any sportsman will just do something to that effect.

"What I am a big believer in is I can sit here and I can talk to you and I can tell you untruths and I can make up all sorts of stories. But one person I can't make up a story to is when I watch myself in the mirror. When I watch myself in the mirror, I know what my intentions were in that particular delivery, and my intention was just try to bowl the best delivery."