Batting first after being put into bat, Sri Lanka had only managed 131/9 from their 20 overs. At one stage they had been 83 for the loss of just two wickets, but then a batting collapse and tight bowling had seen the run rate squeezed.
The West Indies began well in their reply making 52 before Dananjaya stepped up to bowl the fourth over. With his second ball, he had Evin Lewis caught in the deep for 26. Then with his next delivery, he had Chris Gayle back in international cricket after a two-year hiatus leg before, and then he completed his hat-trick by having Nicholas Pooran caught behind.
When Wanindu Hasaranga had the other opener Lendl Simmons leg before in the next over, Sri Lanka thought they had a chance of an unlikely victory.
That though was before Pollard decided to intervene. Deciding that the best form of defence against Dananjaya was attack, he went after the spinner, slogging him in the area between long-off and deep mid-wicket. The first five balls sailed over the boundary, so, for the last ball, Dananjaya decided to change his approach and went round the wicket.
It made no difference, as Pollard slogged that ball over the ropes.
In achieving the feat, Pollard joined the small, elite group of players who have hit 6 sixes in international cricket.
The first was Herschelle Gibbs of South Africa who managed it playing against the Netherlands in the 50 over World Cup in 2007. And the second was Yuvraj Singh of India, in the same year, this time against England in the Twenty20 World Cup, Stuart Broad being the unfortunate bowler on that occasion.
Pollard only made two more before he was leg before to Hasaranga, but the damage had been done, and his side went on to win the match by four wickets with nearly seven overs still to be bowled.