Zimbabwe might need ruffled just a few feathers on this World Cup with victories over Australia and Sri Lanka.
However the Chevrons properly and actually had their wings clipped by Hetmyer and firm because the boundaries have been peppered on the Wankhede Stadium.
Hetmyer had regarded in high-quality fettle within the group stage, chalking up scores of 64, 23, 46 not out and one.
The 29-year-old took it up a notch and performed extra astutely than maybe the uncooked figures of the scorecard would possibly point out.
With a cocktail of clever farming of the strike, elegant drives and at instances sheer brute pressure, he reached a half-century off 19 balls, which left Zimbabwe flummoxed.
It was the quickest by a West Indian at a World Cup – eclipsing his personal file off 22 balls in opposition to Scotland earlier within the match.
No person has greater than sixes than Hetmyer’s 17 on this match, and whereas there was energy within the strokeplay on this innings, it was extra about sharp selections over shot choice with the thoughts than pure muscle.
“I am not overthinking my batting. Now I’m attempting to suppose much less and the bat will now do the speaking and I react [to] what’s in entrance of me,” Hetmyer mentioned afterwards.
Zimbabwe rued dropping him twice, with the hapless Musekiwa wishing the Wankhede turf would swallow him up after he spilled two alternatives his team-mates would have anticipated him to take.
It might need been totally different had the primary been held, though with strike charges of 238 (Rutherford), 210 (Shepherd) and 325 (Holder), presumably not.
Zimbabwe have been by no means within the chase after Motie and Hosein turned the screw – West Indies’ left-arm tweakers bagging seven of the wickets to fall.
The West Indies World Cup bandwagon rolls on after banking one other spectacular victory and the one concern is whether or not they’re peaking too early.
Actually on this proof they may take some stopping.
