T20 World Cup 2026: Shimron Hetmyer scored the fastest half-century for West Indies.

Updated: 23-02-2026, 08.26 PM

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In the 44th match of the T20 World Cup 2026, Shimron Hetmyer of the West Indies cricket team played a quick half-century (85) against the Zimbabwe cricket team. He became the batsman for West Indies to score the fastest half-century (19 balls) in the T-20 World Cup. He improved his own previous record. Meanwhile, he also made a partnership of 122 runs with Rovman Powell. Let’s take a look at his innings.

Hetmyer’s innings was brilliant

Hetmyer got a lease of life on a personal score of 9 runs. Musekiwa dropped Hetmyer’s catch on Muzarabani’s ball. He took full advantage of the lease of life and showed his aggressive intentions by hitting 4 fours in Richard Ngarava’s over in the initial powerplay. He completed his half-century in just 19 balls. Musekiwa again dropped Hetmyer’s catch on the score of 70. Ultimately he was out after scoring 85 runs in 34 balls (fours-7, sixes-7).

Fastest half century from West Indies

Hetmyer improved his own previous record (22 balls vs Scotland, 2026) in scoring the fastest half-century in the T20 World Cup. In the history of this tournament, the fastest half-centuries from Hetmyer are Yuvraj Singh (12 balls vs England, 2007), Stephen Myburgh (17 balls vs Ireland, 2014), Marcus Stoinis (17 balls vs Sri Lanka, 2022), Glenn Maxwell (18 balls vs Pakistan, 2014), KL RahulKL Rahul (18 balls vs Scotland, 2021) and Shoaib Malik (18 balls) vs Scotland, 2021).

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Hetmyer’s performance in T20 World Cup 2026

Hetmyer is in excellent form. This was the second 50+ innings from his bat in the T20 World Cup 2026. He has scored more than 200 runs in 5 innings so far in this tournament with an average of 54.75 and a strike rate of 185.59. He played an inning of 64 runs against Scotland. Apart from this, he had scored unbeaten 46 runs against Nepal.

This is Hetmyer’s T20 international career

Hetmyer, who made his T20 International debut against the New Zealand cricket team in Mount Maunganui in 2018, has played 80 matches so far. During this period, he has scored more than 1,500 runs in 70 innings with an average of around 25. Meanwhile, his highest score has been 85 runs and he has scored 9 half-centuries. He is currently the 9th highest run scorer for West Indies in this format.