Personal

Name

Shimron Hetmyer
Full Name

Shimron Odilon Hetmyer
Country

West Indies
Gender

Male
Date of Birth

December 26, 1996

Sport Profile

Sport

Cricket
Discipline

Men's Cricket
Role

Left-handed Top-order or opening batsman
Level

National, International
Teams

West Indies, Guyana, Guyana Amazon Warriors, Royal Challengers Bangalore, Guyana Under-19, West Indies Under-19
Profile

Shimron Hetmyer is a Guyanese cricketer, who plays for the national cricket team of West Indies since 2017. He plays for all formats of the game and represents the Guyana team at domestic level.

Shimron is a left-handed top-order batsman and occasionally bowls in right-arm leg-break style. Before entering the national West Indies team, he used to play for the Under-19 team of West Indies and captained it as well.

Shimron shone for the very first time in West Indies Under-19 World Cup tournament in 2016 as the emerging youngster of the team. After this, he made his Twenty20 Debut successfully in CPL for Guyana Amazon Warriors in the same following year. After watching his shiny innings in Under-19 World Cup and T20 League, selectors got him the chance to play for the national team of West Indies in 2017.

He made his international debut through a test match and appeared in the first ODI match also in the same following year. Shimron plays his debut T20I game against New Zealand. This aggressive and destructive opener was named in the squad of West Indies in April for the 2019 ICC Cricket World Cup.

(as Compiled by Madhushree Das Ghosh)

(Profile Image from Facebook)
Career Information

Debut Test Match: at Sabina Park Stadium Vs Pakistan on 21st of April in 2017

Last Test Match: at Darren Sammy National Cricket Stadium Vs England on 9th of February in 2019

Debut ODI Match: at Cobham Oval Stadium Vs New Zealand on 20th of December in 2017

Last ODI: at Darren Sammy National Cricket Stadium Vs England on 2nd of March in 2019

Debut T20I Match: at Bay Oval Stadium Vs New Zealand on 1st of January in 2018

Last T20I Match: at Warner Park Stadium Vs New Zealand on 10th of March in 2019

Debut IPL Match: at MA Chidambaram Stadium Vs Chennai on 23rd of March in 2019

Last IPL Match: at M Chinnaswamy Stadium Vs Hyderabad on 4th of May in 2019

Batting Career:

  • He has scored 754 runs in 13 matches in 2 years of Test career at an average of 30.16 and strike rate of 75.7 including 5 fifties (as on May 30, 2019)
  • He has scored 899 runs in 24 matches in 2 years of ODI career at an average of 40.86 and strike rate of 110.31 including 4 hundreds and 2 fifties (as on May 30, 2019)
  • He has scored 109 runs in 11 matches in 1 year of T20I career at an average of 12.11 and strike rate of 118.48 (as on May 30, 2019)
  • He has scored 90 runs in 5 matches in the first year of IPL career at an average of 18 and strike rate of 123.29 including 1 fifty (as on May 30, 2019)
Achievements/Records Associated With
  • One of the Breakout Stars in Men’s Cricket in 2018 by ICC
  • One of the Five exciting talents making their World Cup debut by ICC
  • The youngest player to score a century in CPL against Jamaica Tallawahs in 2018