Tuesday , December 24 2024

42 sixes in a single match, new history in T20, Dharkham batsman made bowlers sweat | News India

Shimron Hetmyer Creates History: The 7th match of the Caribbean Premier League i.e. CPL 2024 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 the explosive innings of Shimron Hetmyer. Hetmyer not only played an explosive innings of 91 runs in this match but also created a new history in T20 cricket.

Guyana captain Imran Tahir won the toss and decided to bat first. Openers Rahmanullah Gurbaz and Kevin Sinclair started the innings but within 25 runs, Kyle Mayers broke the opening pair. The team suffered its first blow in the form of Kevin Sinclair (17) on the fourth ball of the third over. Then Shai Hope (12) who was on the field also got out cheaply and returned to the pavilion. Veerasamy Permaul hunted Hope. After the team lost 2 wickets in the beginning, Shimron Hetmyer took charge with Gurbaz and then rained sixes in such a way that even the bowlers started sweating and took the team's score beyond 250. Hetmyer played a stormy innings of 91 runs in just 39 balls and created a new record. He hit 11 skyscraper sixes in his explosive innings. In this way, this dashing batsman of West Indies created a new history in T20 cricket.

Hetmyer's explosive innings set a new record

Hetmyer played a stormy innings of 91 runs at a strike rate of 233.33 in which he hit 11 sixes but no fours. In this way, he became the first batsman in the history of T20 to hit 10 or more sixes without hitting a single four. No batsman had done this feat before.

Batsmen who hit the most sixes in T20 matches without hitting a single four

11- Shimron Hetmyer (GAW vs SKN): 91 off 39 balls, Basseterre 2024

9. Ricky Wessels (Notts vs Worcs): 55 off 18 balls, Worcester 2018

8. Will Jacks (Surrey vs Kent): 64 off 27 balls, Canterbury 2019

8- Syed Aziz (Malaysia vs Singapore): 52 off 10 balls, Bangi 2022

8- Dipendra Singh Ari (Nepal vs Mongolia): 55 off 20 balls, Hangzhou 2023

8- Heinrich Klaasen (SRH vs KKR): 63 off 29 balls, Kolkata 2024

equalled the IPL record

In reply to Guyana's Amazon Warriors' score of 266/7, St Kitts were all out for 266 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 most sixes in a T20 match. Earlier, the same number of sixes were hit in the match played between Kolkata and Punjab in IPL 2024.