IPL 6: Kieron Pollard feels Mumbai Indians can make it to the play-offs

quotFor me personally it has been an okay season Obviously we are not winning as we want to There are six more games and we need to win a couple of more games in order to qualify for the last four So we are working at that Come weekend we can get two wins at homequot Pollard told reporters on the sidelines of an event in Mumbai He was referring to the home games MI have against table toppers Chennai Super Kings on May 5 followed by the match against holders Kolkata Knight Riders two days later Currently MI are fourth in the table with 12 points from 6 wins out of 10 games They have won all their four matches at the Wankhede Stadium till date quotWe are not having the best of the seasons but we are in the top four And that is all that matters at the end of the day It39s about being in the top four and qualifying for the semifinals and hopefully into the finals Hopefully it clicks at the right time quotThe guys are coming into form We are playing some pretty good cricket We have two home games this coming week so hopefully we can do well at the Wankhedequot he added Kieron Pollard is confident of MI making the IPl playofffs PicSuresh KK Despite being a strong team MI have never won the title and Pollard said this year they have a better shot at it quotYes Obviously six years on it IPL but Mumbai hasn39t won But at the end of the day its a sport Just because you have a good team and good players doesn39t mean you are entitled to win You still have to go out there and performu00a0 quotIt performance hasn39t been as we wanted but we have a very good chance each and every year This year has been an even better chance We have seen glimpses of what we can do and hopefully we can continue with it at the right timequot the 25yearold said Pollard termed Australian captain Ricky Ponting39s decision to drop himself from the team as a brave one quotHe is a class player and he has proven himself on the international scene for so many years and nothing can beat experience Having said that it39s a team of 11 and only four foreigners can play I think he took a brave decision and brave call and hats off to him Hopefully we can go out there and perform wellquot said the 25yearold Trinidadian Talking about his struggles with the bat in the last couple of games Pollard said it was not easy to hit sixes at will quotIt hasn39t gone as I wanted to in the last two games When you look at the other individuals they tried to bowl well This is sport I wish I could just walk out everyday just give me a ball and I could hit it for six But it doesn39t happen like thatquot Asked if he could give a performance similar to what his West Indian teammate Gayle has delivered for Royal Challengers Bangalore Pollard said he doesn39t get the opportunity to score as many runs as the Jamaican opener since he bats lower down the order quotWhat sort of tsunami do you think you can get in three overs Chris is an exciting batsman he is an opening batsman he gets the opportunity each and every time to start the innings and he knows how to go about building his innings He is a world class player quotFor me it39s not about a Pollard tsunami it is about Mumbai Indians winning and Pollard contributing to the Mumbai Indians39 win Whatever is necessary in the situation I am put into I am going to try and do my bestquot he said quotCricket is a team sport it can39t be about me and it is about a team It is about the 11 individuals going onto the field in order to do well I am a middle order batsman For me if it is to make 20 off 5 balls and it helps the team to win I am willing to do thatquot he added The big West Indian has caught some of the most breathtaking catches on the boundary line during his stints in IPL and he said the entire MI team takes pride in its fielding quotWe have one of the best fielders to have ever played the game as our fielding coach Jonty Rhodes and obviously we have to live up to his standards and try to better it Not only in this season have you seen catches like that Fielding is very important in cricket and especially T20 cricket the amount of runs you save We pride ourselves on our fieldingquot he said Asked about the current state of West Indies in Test matches Pollard said the team should aim to improve its performance in Oneday cricket first and then replicate it in Tests quotI can39t talk about Test cricket because I haven39t played in it But it improvement will happen It has to start somewhere and it obviously started at T20 version Hopefully we can try and get better at oneday cricket and then transform that into Test cricketquot West Indies who boast of players like Gayle Dwayne Bravo Dwayne Smith Darren Sammy Sunil Narine besides Pollard playing in the Indian Premier League had captured the previous World T20 Championship held in Sri Lanka last year