Shimron Hetmyer broke the record for most sixes hit by a player in a single edition of the T20 World Cup after striking two maximums for the West Indies against India in the Group 1 Super 8 match in Kolkata on Sunday.
Coming in at one down at the Eden Gardens, Shimron Hetmyer, who represents Rajasthan Royals in the Indian Premier League, hammered a brisk 27 off 12 balls, featuring two sixes and a boundary.
Those two blows took the West Indian’s sixes tally at the T20 World Cup 2026 to 19, moving him past Sahibzada Farhan’s mark of 18 set on Saturday.
Before this edition, the record had belonged to Nicholas Pooran, who struck 17 sixes during the 2024 tournament in the USA and the West Indies.
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The 29-year-old Hetmyer is also the fourth-highest run-scorer in the ongoing T20 World Cup edition, with 248 runs from seven innings at an average of 41.33 and a strike rate of 186.46.
Earlier in the tournament, the West Indies power-hitter lit up Mumbai with an unbeaten 85 off just 34 balls in their Super 8 opener against Zimbabwe in a knock that featured a 19-ball fifty - the fastest by a West Indian at a T20 World Cup.
That effort bettered his own record set earlier in the tournament against Scotland in Kolkata. He blasted a 22-ball fifty en route to 64 off 36 to surpass the previous benchmark held by Chris Gayle, who made a 23-ball half-century against Australia in 2009.
