Shimron Hetmyer ‘s storm – So many sixes were hit in a match of Caribbean Premier League that a new history was created in T20 cricket. In this match, the dashing batsman of West Indies hit 11 sixes alone and created a new record of hitting more than 10 sixes in an innings without hitting a four.
In the 7th match of the Caribbean Premier League i.e. CPL 2024, a match was played between St Kitts and Nevis Patriots vs Guyana Amazon Warriors. In this match, Guyana Amazon Warriors defeated St Kitts and Nevis Patriots by 40 runs, thanks to Shimron Hetmyer’s stormy innings. Hetmyer not only played a stormy innings of 91 runs in this match but also created a new history in T20 cricket.
In fact, Guyana captain Imran Tahir won the toss and decided to bat first. Openers Rahmanullah Gurbaz and Kevin Sinclair started the innings but Kyle Mayers broke the opening pair within 25 runs. The team got the first blow in the form of Kevin Sinclair (17) on the fourth ball of the third over. After this, Shai Hope (12), who came on the field, also got out cheaply and returned to the pavilion. Veerasamy Paramaul hunted Hope. After the team lost 2 wickets early, Shimron Hetmyer took charge with Gurbaz and then rained sixes so much that the team’s score crossed 250 and he took a sigh of relief. Hetmyer played a brilliant innings of 91 runs in just 39 balls and created a new record. He hit 11 skyscraper sixes in his stormy innings. In this way, this dashing batsman of West Indies created a new history in T20 cricket.
New record created by Hetmyer’s storm
Hetmyer played an innings of 91 runs at a strike rate of 233.33 in which he hit 11 sixes but did not hit a single four. In this way, he has become the first batsman in the world to hit 10 or more sixes without a four in T20 history. No other batsman had been able to do this feat before this. There was a heavy rain of sixes in this match.
Batsmen with most sixes without a four in a T20 match
11 – Shimron Hetmyer (GAW vs SKN): 91 runs off 39 balls, Basseterre 2024
9 – Ricky Wessels (Notts vs Worcs): 55 runs off 18 balls, Worcester 2018
8 – Will Jacks (Surrey vs Kent): 64 runs off 27 balls, Canterbury 2019
8 – Syed Aziz (Malaysia vs Singapore): 55 runs off 20 balls, Bangui 2022
8 – Dipendra Singh Airee (Nepal vs Mongolia): 52* runs off 10 balls, Hangzhou 2023
8 – Heinrich Klaasen (SRH vs KKR): 63 runs off 29 balls, Kolkata 2024
IPL record equalled
Responses to Guyana Amazon Warriors’ score of 266/7 In the match, the St Kitts team was all out for 266 runs in 18 overs. In this way, a total of 42 sixes were hit by both the teams in this match, which is the joint record for the most sixes in a T20 match. Earlier, the same number of sixes were hit in a match played between Kolkata and Punjab in IPL 2024.
