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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, thanks to Shimron Hetmyer’s stormy innings, Guyana Amazon Warriors defeated St Kitts and Nevis Patriots by 40 runs. Hetmyer not only played a stormy innings of 91 runs in this match but also created a new history in T20 cricket.
Actually, 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 got its 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 Permaul hunted Hope. After the team lost 2 wickets early, Shimron Hetmyer took charge with Gurbaz and then rained sixes in such a way that the team’s score crossed 250. 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.
Hetmyer’s storm created a new record
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 hitting 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 who hit the most sixes without hitting a four in a T20 match
- 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): 55 off 20 balls, Bangi 2022
- 8 – Dipendra Singh Airee (Nepal vs Mongolia): 52* off 10 balls, Hangzhou 2023
- 8 – Heinrich Klaasen (SRH vs KKR): 63 off 29 balls, Kolkata 2024
IPL record equalled
In response to Guyana Amazon Warriors’ score of 266/7, 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.
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