Akeal Hosein, Shimron Hetmyer, Nicholas Pooran, and Andre Russell, who missed the recent Sri Lanka tour due to personal reasons, rejoin the squad picked by Cricket West Indies (CWI) for the first two games of the upcoming T20I series against England
Hetmyer had left the RR camp on May 8 after the clash against Punjab Kings, as he wanted to be with his wife during the birth of their first child. According to ESPNcricinfo, Hetmyer is undergoing quarantine as per IPL protocol and will be out in time to train ahead of Royal's final league match on Friday against Chennai Super Kings.
"I just want to relax, bowl, put the ball in the right areas and let the ball do the work," the Caribbean pacer added.
Pant clearly had a forgettable day behind the stumps.
West Indies showed a lot of promise to go one-up in Chennai but the home team bounced back strongly to post a mammoth 387/5 en route to a series-levelling 107-run victory in Visakhapatnam.
The most expensive buy in IPL 2020 Auction was Australian speedster Pat Cummins. The right-arm pacer was bought by the Kolkata Knight Riders for INR 15.5 crore.
Hetmyer, 22, took 106 balls for his sensational 139 which was studded with 11 fours and seven huge sixes. This was his fifth ODI hundred.
Hope and Hetmyer stitched 218 runs for the second wicket after Windies lost Sunil Ambris (9) early on the ball of Deepak Chahar.
In a media interaction ahead of the ODI series, which begins in Chennai on Sunday, said the team's young cricketers like Shimron Hetmyer and Nicholas Pooran must learn from opposition skipper Virat Kohli.
After scoring a brilliant century in his first innings as a Test opener and following it with another triple-figure score in the very next innings, Sharma scored a double century in the third and final Test against South Africa in the ongoing series.
