West Indies males’s lead selector Desmond Haynes knowledgeable that Shimron Hetmyer had made himself accessible for the ODI World Cup 2023 qualifiers in Zimbabwe however didn’t get chosen as per ESPNcricinfo.
He additional stated that the selectors wished to maintain the identical staff which did properly within the white ball sequence in South Africa earlier this yr. Hetmyer has impressed everybody together with his latest performances within the ongoing Indian Premier League match. He has performed 13 matches to this point in IPL the place he has scored 254 runs with a strike charge of 150.30.
However, he was not a part of the World Cup qualifier squad and three-match ODI sequence towards UAE in Sharjah. Therefore, Haynes believes that it might be honest to stay with the blokes who had accomplished properly in South Africa. West Indies had drawn the ODI sequence 1-1 and received the T20I sequence 2-1.
“Yes, Hetmyer was available. He did send through an email or correspondence to Jimmy [Adams], our director of cricket, stating that he was available for the tour,” Haynes stated as quoted by ESPNcricinfo.
“What we selectors determined to do was that we have simply had a brand new [ODI] captain in Shai Hope and he was very joyful to specific his views about the kind of camaraderie we had within the staff in South Africa.
“We as selectors saw commitment, we saw a real change in our approach to one-day cricket, and we thought it was only fair to stick with these guys, ” he additional added.
Hetmyer has not performed an ODI cricket for West Indies since July 2021 and the final time he performed T20I for the Indies was in August 2022. West Indies’ selector cleared that no participant has been dominated out of choice.
“I must say, though, that I just want the public to know that nobody has been ruled out of selection for West Indies. We do not have the depth of players to rule out anybody for selection,” he stated.
