Shimron Hetmyer

Hetmyer arrives safely in India

2026-02-06 19:50:00 UTC

KOLKATA, India (CMC): Following a nervous few days, Shimron Hetmyer has joined his West Indies teammates in Kolkata hours ahead of their opening ICC Men’s T20 World Cup match against Scotland. The powerful left-hander had been stranded in South...

Hetmyer’s visa woes cast shadow over the Windies’ World Cup preparations

2026-02-06 19:50:00 UTC

BENGALURU, India – In a concerning development ahead of the T20 World Cup, West Indies’ batting powerhouse Shimron Hetmyer finds himself stranded in South Africa, unable to join his teammates in India due to unresolved visa issues.

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Shimron Odilon Hetmyer (born 26 December 1996) is a Guyanese cricketer who plays as a top order batsman for the West Indies cricket team. Hetmyer captained the Windies to win the 2016 Under-19 Cricket World Cup. During 2018 the International Cricket Council (ICC) named Hetmyer as one of the five breakout stars in men's cricket. He was also the captain of the Guyana Amazon Warriors in the 2022 season of the Caribbean Premier League.

He made his Twenty20 (T20) debut in the 2016 Caribbean Premier League (CPL) for the Guyana Amazon Warriors, and was retained for the 2017 edition. In August 2018, he became the youngest batsman to score a century in the CPL, when he made 100 runs for Guyana Amazon Warriors against the Jamaica Tallawahs.