West Indies’ Shimron Hetmyer has created history in the Super-8 of the 2026 T20 World Cup. He hit five consecutive sixes and scored the fastest century for West Indies in the history of T20 World Cup. Hetmyer completed his fifty in just 19 balls against Zimbabwe. Earlier, the record of scoring the fastest half-century in the T20 World Cup was in the name of Shimran Hetmyer himself. In the same World Cup, Hetmyer scored a half-century in 22 balls against Scotland. But today he created history by breaking his own record and scoring fifty in 19 balls.
Shimron Hetmyer came to bat at number three against Zimbabwe and as soon as he came, he hit a flurry of fours and sixes. Hetmyer also hit five consecutive sixes during this period. He first hit sixes on the last two balls of the seventh over and then hit three consecutive sixes in the next over. In this way he hit five sixes in five consecutive balls.
The catch was dropped on 09 runs
Let us tell you that when Hetmyer was batting for only 09 runs, the Zimbabwean team dropped his catch. Taking advantage of this gift of life, Hetmyer created history. Hetmayer’s dropping the catch could prove to be Zimbabwe’s biggest regret in the match.
The innings ended on 85 runs.
Hetmyer remained away from a century. He scored 85 runs in 34 balls with the help of 7 fours and 7 sixes. Looking at his innings, it seemed that he would easily reach a century, but he missed the mark of triple digits.
Second batsman to score most runs in the tournament
Now Hetmyer has become the second batsman to score the most runs in the current T20 World Cup. He has scored 219 runs in 5 innings of 5 matches at an average of 54.75 and an excellent strike rate of 185.59. During this period, he has scored 2 half-centuries, in which the high score is 85 runs. Pakistan Sahibzada Farhan is at the first position in the list with 220 runs.
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