Kieron Pollard’s birthday celebrations involved a lot of cake smearing (Mumbai Indians Twitter)
Mumbai Indians never lose on Kieron Pollard’s birthday, trend continues as MI beat Gujarat Titans, wild celebration inside dressing room
Mumbai Indians batting coach Kieron Pollard couldn’t have asked for a better birthday gift from his team. Rohit Sharma and co took on table-toppers Gujarat Titans in a high-scoring encounter on Friday, 12 May. After the stunning 27-run win at the Wankhede, the Mumbai players organized a special birthday party for Pollard inside the dressing room.
A clip of the loud celebration was posted on the official Twitter page of the franchise. In the video, the Mumbai cricketers and coaching staff can be heard singing “Happy Birthday” to Pollard.
After cutting the cake, the team members tried to hit the cake on Pollard’s face and the Caribbean legend looked ready for it. Mumbai captioned the clip, “This cake smash > 409 run smash at Wankhede. Happy birthday, Polly.”
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Soon after the clip of Pollard’s birthday party surfaced on the internet, fans were quick to highlight the charming personality of the veteran all-rounder. Some users also highlighted the bonding between the squad members of Mumbai Indians. One user wrote, ‘This team is more than a family.’
This team is more than a family🥺💙— 🍁🇮🇳🇨🇭 Sachin Suri 🔴🇾🇪 (@Sachin_MUFC_MI) May 13, 2023
Along with the fans, the Mumbai franchise made a sarcastic comment which mirrored the outcome of the cake-smashing incident. It said, “We’re not here for the long run, we’re here for the good times—Polly’s birthday cake.”
“We’re not here for the long run, we’re here for the good times.” – Polly’s birthday cake 🫡 – Mumbai Indians (@mipaltan) May 13, 2023
A die-hard Kieron Pollard fan urged the former Mumbai Indians cricketer to come out of retirement and play for the franchise again.
Come out of retirement- 👨total. (@loyalsachfan01) May 13, 2023
Here are some other responses:
Happy Birthday Polly 🎂💙 – tea lover Deepan (@Deepanrohit45) May 13, 2023
Nice to see the camaraderie!!!- Mohan Krishna (@MohanMaverick99) May 13, 2023
Awww cute bromance 💙🤩 – sanju (@always_sanzu) May 13, 2023
Mumbai Indians have not lost a match till date on Kieron Pollard’s birthday. The franchise has previously won all five games including the final of the 2019 edition against Chennai Super Kings on May 12. Mumbai won the thrilling encounter by just 1 run and won the IPL title for the fourth time. The trend continued this season as well with a win over Gujarat.
Powered by Suryakumar Yadav’s maiden IPL century, Mumbai posted a mammoth score of 218 against Gujarat. The Suns entered the home game on the back of some commendable innings. The Indian batsman has scored a total of 307 runs in his last four matches, including an unbeaten 103 against Gujarat. Chasing a mammoth target, Gujarat lost three big wickets of Shubman Gill, Wriddhiman Saha and Hardik Pandya in the first four overs.
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Vijay Shankar and David Miller tried to settle things in the middle overs. Rashid Khan, who came in at number 6, played a blistering knock of 79 off 32 balls, but in the end, Gujarat fell 27 runs short of the target.