Shimron Hetmyer has been dropped from the West Indies men\u2019s T20 World Cup squad after he failed to board a \u201crescheduled\u201d flight to Australia. The choice was made \u201cunanimously,\u201d according to CWI, by the selection panel, which also chose to nominate Shamarh Brooks to succeed Hetmyer.<\/p>\n
After the CPL ended on Saturday, the rest of the West Indies team had divided into several groups and travelled to Australia. White-ball skipper Nicholas Pooran said, \u201cTo be honest, that\u2019s not my focus at the moment. A decision has been made, there\u2019s consequences for your action. At the moment just want to focus on why we\u2019re here and how we\u2019re going to achieve our goals.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hetmyer, the Guyana Amazon Warriors captain, originally planned to depart on October 1 but requested that his trip be postponed for personal reasons. Hetmyer informed Jimmy Adams, CWI\u2019s director of cricket, that he would not be travelling after CWI had placed him on a Monday flight. \u201cThe decision by the CWI selection panel was made as Shimron Hetmyer missed his re-scheduled flight to Australia, which had been changed from Saturday 1 October at his request, due to family reasons,\u201d CWI said in a media statement. \u201cWith flight availability a real challenge, a seat was found for him to leave Guyana today, Monday 3 October, meaning he would unfortunately miss the 1st T20 International (T20I) against Australia on Wednesday 5 October at the Metricon Stadium. This morning, Mr Hetmyer, informed the Director of Cricket that he would not be able to get to the airport in time for his flight this afternoon to New York.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cThis afternoon we informed the CWI board of directors that the selection panel had unanimously decided to replace Shimron Hetmyer with Shamarh Brooks in our T20 World Cup squad,\u201d Adams said. \u201cWhilst we changed Shimron\u2019s flight from Saturday to Monday due to family reasons, it was made clear to him that if there were any further delays and issues with his travel to Australia then we would have no choice but to replace him in the squad, as we are not prepared to compromise the team\u2019s ability to prepare for this extremely important global event.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Shimron Hetmyer has been dropped from the West Indies men\u2019s T20 World Cup squad after he failed to board a\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":27620,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1758,3396,2213,3066],"class_list":["post-4607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-cwi","tag-icc-t20-world-cup-2022","tag-shimron-hetmyer","tag-wi"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}