Shimron Hetmyer

His next chance at youth level went much better. Named captain of the West Indies side for the 2016 Under-19 World Cup, he hit half-centuries in both the quarter-final and the semi-final as his team went on to win the trophy. That same year the Guyana Amazon Warriors signed him for the CPL, though he appeared just once and fell without scoring.

The senior call-up arrived in April 2017 for a three-match Test series against Pakistan, where he batted at number 3 but could not turn promising beginnings into big totals. A similar pattern followed on the December 2017 tour of New Zealand, which also gave him his first taste of ODI and T20I cricket, where runs were scarce. A century against the UAE at the World Cup qualifiers marked a turning point. His bold, powerful hitting made him a feared presence in the middle order, and he became a regular in the West Indies white-ball teams, featuring at the 2019 Cricket World Cup and the 2021 World T20. Personal reasons kept him out of the 2022 T20 World Cup.

In the IPL, Royal Challengers Bangalore signed him in 2019, but an underwhelming campaign led to his release. Delhi Capitals picked him up the next year, yet his two seasons there did not match expectations. Rajasthan Royals invested INR 8.5 crore in him in 2022, and he repaid that faith with 314 runs from 15 matches at a strike rate of 153.92, playing a key part in the side reaching that season's final.