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West Indies vs Zimbabwe T20 World Cup Match Records: It rained records in the Super-8 match of the T20 World Cup between Zimbabwe and West Indies. West Indies won this match played at Wankhede Stadium by a huge margin of 107 runs. West Indies scored a huge score of 254 runs with Shimron Hetmyer’s stormy innings of 85 runs. After this, the bowlers tightened their grip on Zimbabwe and restricted their innings to 147 runs in 17.4 overs.
The batting order of the Zimbabwe team, which was chasing the huge target of 255 runs given by the West Indies, fell apart like a house of cards. Brian Bennett, who was in amazing form in the group stage, was out after scoring just 5 runs. Dion Myers scored 28 runs in 15 balls, hitting 3 fours and two sixes. Captain Sikandar Raza played an inning of 27 runs in 20 balls, while Brian Evans scored 43 runs in 21 balls. Evans hit 2 fours and 5 sixes in his innings. However, he could not get the support of the rest of the batsmen from the other end. Gudakesh Moti and Akil Hussain proved to be an incomprehensible puzzle for the Zimbabwean batsmen. Gudakesh took 4 wickets while spending only 28 runs in 4 overs. At the same time, Akil took 3 big wickets for 28 runs.
Batting first, Shimron Hetmyer scored the highest score of 85 runs in 34 balls for West Indies. Making the fastest fifty for West Indies in the T20 World Cup, Hetmyer hit 7 fours and 7 sixes in his innings. Whereas, Rovman Powell contributed 59 runs in 35 balls. Sherfane Rutherford remained unbeaten after scoring a quick-paced 31 runs in 13 balls.
On the basis of the stormy batting of Shimron Hetmyer and Rovman Powell, West Indies made its highest score of the T20 World Cup. Not only this, but the Caribbean team has also made a world record against Zimbabwe. West Indies has become the team making the highest score against Zimbabwe in T20 International. West Indies has broken the record of Team India. In the match played against Zimbabwe in the year 2024, the Indian team had scored 234 runs by losing 2 wickets in 20 overs.
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Hetmyer hit seven sixes in his innings, making him equal to Nicholas Pooran in terms of hitting most sixes in a single edition of the T20 World Cup. Hetmyer has hit 17 sixes so far in this World Cup. At the same time, Puran had hit a total of 17 sixes in the T20 World Cup 2024. This is the third time that West Indies have scored more than 250 runs on the scoreboard in T20 International. He has equaled Zimbabwe in this matter. In the shortest format of cricket, India has scored more than 250 runs at most four times.