Shimron Hetmyer

Some Lesser Known Facts About Shimron Hetmyer

• Does Shimron Hetmyer smoke?: Not Known

• Does Shimron Hetmyer drink alcohol?: Yes

  

• Shimron hails from a modest family of the Canefield Settlement in East Canje who started accompanying his elder brother Seon to the Young Warriors Club ground at the age of 6.

• He started playing the school-level cricket at the age of 9 for the Rose Hall Estate Primary School and Young Warriors Cricket Club.

• He has always been highly athletic; as he used to easily beat his sprinting counterparts during the training at his school.

• At the age of 16, he became a talk of the town when he scored a century in a first-class match.

  

• He had a nightmare batting display at the 2014 U-19 World Cup; as he got dismissed for a duck in 3 out of 5 innings he played.

• He has had the leadership skills since his school days; as he first captained at the school-level when he was in 4th form (10th standard) and continued it in Guyana Under-15, Under-17, and West Indies Under-19.

• Under his leadership, the West Indies Under-19 team had won their first Under-19 World Cup title in Bangladesh in 2016.

  

• He considers his elder brother Seon Hetmyer, and West Indian legend Brian Lara as his source of inspirations. ^[5]News Nation

• He is known to be a chatterbox and a very funny person.

• According to him, if he wasn’t a cricketer, he would have been a footballer.