Shimron Hetmyer misses his flight for 20-20 World Cup 2022, replacement announcement

West Indies cricket team was bound to take the flight to Australia on October 1. All players except for Shimron Hetmyer boarded the flight. He cited family reasons and requested the Cricket West Indies (CWI) to postpone his flight. The board accepted his request and asked him to take the flight on October 3. However, the left-hander failed to catch the rescheduled flight.

Now, CWI has announced Shamarh Brooks as Hetmyer’s replacement. In a statement issued by the board, they said that they have informed the World Cricket Governing Council about the development.

“Cricket West Indies (CWI) has today informed the International Cricket Council (ICC) that Shamarh Brooks has replaced Shimron Hetmyer in the West Indies Squad for the upcoming ICC T20 World Cup in Australia,” said CWI in a statement.

The selection panel unanimously decided to replace Shimron Hetmyer with Shamarh Brooks: Cricket West Indies

CWI Director of Cricket Jimmy Adams has said that the selection panel unanimously decided to replace the Guyana player with Brooks. Adams added that the panel informed the board about the same. The former cricketer also mentioned the reason for Shimron’s flight delay for family reasons, Jimmy revealed that the 2016 U19 World Cup winning skipper was informed about getting replaced if he doesn’t catch his rescheduled flight.

“This 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. Whilst we changed Shimron’s 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’s ability to prepare for this extremely important global event,” said Adams.

“Shamarh has been a part of our recent T20 International squads and delivered strong performances in the latter stages of the recently concluded CPL. He will fly out as soon as possible this week to Australia and I wish him and all the squad all the very best for the tournament,” he added.