Shimron Hetmyer blasts West Indies to big win over Zimbabwe at T20 World Cup

The West Indies crushed Zimbabwe by 107 runs successful nan T20 World Cup Super Eight stage, pinch Shimron Hetmyer's 85 nan header enactment successful Mumbai.

Hetymer unfurled a furious show of power-hitting astatine nan Wankhede Stadium, including his country's fastest half-century successful nan format disconnected conscionable 19 deliveries.

In each he struck 7 of nan West Indies' 19 sixes arsenic they raced to 254 for six - nan second-highest people successful nan tournament's history. Rovman Powell besides deed shape pinch 59 disconnected 35.

Zimbabwe did not person nan firepower to compete, scraping together 147 each retired successful nan 18th complete arsenic spinners Gudakesh Motie (four for 28) and Akeal Hosein (three for 28) shared nan spoils.

The dense victory, nan biggest of nan title to date, gives nan Windies a awesome nett run-rate boost arsenic they oculus a spot successful nan semi-finals, heaping unit connected favourites India aft their conclusion by South Africa.

“I’m not overthinking my batting,” Hetmyer explained. “I’ve been overthinking successful nan past. Now I americium trying to deliberation little and nan bat will now do nan talking and I respond what's successful beforehand of me.”

The West Indies return connected South Africa successful their adjacent crippled connected Thursday successful Ahmedabad, earlier Zimbabwe look India later connected successful Chennai successful a must-win crippled for some sides.

PA