Shimron Hetmyer

Yeah.

If you're, let's say if you're a Shafaque Babaford or a Hetmyer, you've already got your deal signed up for South Africa or whatever, ILT20.

It's not like you can just rip it up and say, "Oh, yeah, cool, I'm gonna play for West Indies" with, like, three and four months notice.

It's madness to do that.

Let's look at our team.

Yeah.

We're talking about, um, in, in terms of whether it be IPL or anything like that, you're talking Rutherford, Hetmyer.

Mm.

I'd rather see Amir Janggo in there personally, but there you go.

Hetmyer at three, Powell, Rutherford, Chase, Shepherd, Akeal, Forde, Springer and Shamar Joseph.

We'll do a pitch report in a second, but Richard, you're quite keen on West Indies in this format.

Well, I am.

I definitely th- I thought they did really well at T20 World Cup.

Just about give India the best game actually, didn't they? Um, they're hit or miss with the way they play.

I mean, you only have to look at Hetmyer and Rutherford and people like that.

And I know they were poor in the first game, but they chased a monster total down in the last ODI.

I need money.

Can I go and play some T20 leagues?" Sherfane Rutherford, Shimron Hetmyer will be fucking off from there by now.

[laughing] "Much obliged, I am not able to.

Whole day you are making me stand in the sun."

Was that someone who you always, you know, you definitely felt would be in the side?

Well, with Shimron Hetmyer not there, obviously, you know, I've always felt as Ameer Jango should be given more opportunities, and I think this series will provide that for him.

I think that, you know, there may be a situation where he even opens the batting at some point in this series as well because he's-

Okay

But he was someone who, like some of his faster spells, he, he bowled this one spell in St. Lucia, which was just the fastest thing that I ever seen.

He's bowling absolutely rapid this, uh, uh, uh, Shimron Hetmyer, left-armer from West Indies, and I was at leg slip I think, and we were miles back.

Like I can't tell you how far back.

And then every time he'd bowl a short ball, Hetmyer would like just get his neck out the way-

Yeah, great memories.

There's a couple, I think there's one, the left-hander, I think it's Hetmyer, and Root takes it, like, really high.

Even looking back now, I'm like, "That was special."

It was quick, yeah.

But Mangesh does have a point to say that we kind of already know where the ceiling of a King-Hope partnership goes.

So he's like, "You need to now start bringing in your Akeem Hossains." And if you, and if you're gonna play a bilateral series friendly against Sri Lanka and not try some new people at the top of the order, when will you try them? And are, are we going to waste the next two years of a World Cup cycle basically going to the next World Cup with pretty much the same squad? So right now our top six in T20s is essentially King, Hope, Hetmyer, Powell, Rutherford, and probably throw in Holder maybe in that top six.

Um, is Holder...

Yeah, Holder, Chase, that's your seven.

You can let this team...

And when you think about when you're going in- going into the World Cup, there were already players who are being reintegrated into the team.

Hetmyer hadn't really been-

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