Shepherd hat-trick, Hetmyer fifty set up West Indies win
Kolkata, Feb. 8 -- Romario Shepherd took the first hattrick of the T20 World Cup after Shimron Hetmyer broke Chris Gayle's record for the quickest fifty by a West Indies batter as the former champions kicked off their campaign here with a 35-run win over Scotland in Group C at Eden Gardens on Saturday.
Asked to chase 183, Scotland, the late replacement for Bangladesh, were already staring down the barrel at 132/5 after 16 overs. Seamer Shepherd came in to bowl his third over of the match and ended up taking four wickets in the over, including a hattrick, hastening Scotland's defeat.
Mark Watt sliced Shepherd off the first ball to deep point to take a single and give the strike to Matthew Cross. Shepherd bowled full and wide, prompting Cross...
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