The West Indies national cricket team may have suffered heartbreak during their Super 8 clash with India in the T20 World Cup 2026, but their hard-hitting batsman Rovman Powell created history at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata on Sunday, March 1.
Powell scored unbeaten 34 runs in just 19 balls against India in the Super 8 match of T20 World Cup 2026. However, the Windies lost to India by five wickets in the previous Super 8; As a result, the two-time champions were ruled out of the ongoing T20 World Cup 2026.
Rovman Powell becomes the first West Indies player to hit 150 T20I sixes
Rovman Powell hit three fours and two big sixes and scored important runs at an excellent strike rate of close to 179. Those two sixes helped him reach 150 sixes in T20I cricket. With this, Powell became the first West Indies player to hit 150 sixes in T20I cricket.
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The hard-hitting batsman overtook Nicholas Pooran, who had 149 sixes in his career, to achieve the feat in T20 Internationals. However, Pooran is still the leading T20I run scorer for the Caribbean country, having scored 2,275 runs in 106 matches and 97 innings with 13 fifties and his best score being 98.
Players who hit most sixes for West Indies in T20I
| player | Duration | mat | Inn | 6s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rovman powell | 2017–present | 117 | 103 | 150 |
| nicholas puran | 2016–2024 | 106 | 97 | 149 |
| evin lewis | 2016–2026 | 67 | 66 | 136 |
| chris gayle | 2006-2021 | 79 | 75 | 124 |
| Shimron Hetmyer | 2018–present | 82 | 72 | 99 |
Strong T20 record of Rovman Powell
Powell is also the second-highest run-scorer for the Windies in T20I cricket, with 2,261 runs in 117 T20I innings so far. His average is around 26 and strike is above 141. He has also scored one century and 10 half-centuries in this format.
In the ongoing T20 World Cup, Powell has scored 149 runs in six innings at an average of 29.80 and a strike rate above 147. In his long T20 career, he has hit 394 sixes in 295 innings, and now he needs just six more sixes to reach the mammoth figure of 400 sixes in the format.
Powell is also close to another major milestone. He has scored 5,944 runs so far in T20 cricket and now needs only 56 runs to touch 6,000 T20 runs.
India reaches semi-finals of T20 World Cup 2026, West Indies loses
Talking about the match, the Caribbean team had a solid start. Roston Chase scored 40 runs in 25 balls with the help of five fours and one six. Captain Shai Hope added 32 runs in 33 balls with the help of three fours and one six. The duo added 68 runs in the opening partnership against India in Kolkata.
But things changed rapidly. West Indies slipped to 119/4 in 14.1 overs. Shimron Hetmyer tried to handle the team by scoring 27 runs in 12 balls. Then, Jason Holder scored 37 not out from 22 balls, while Powell showed some fight by scoring 34 not out from 19 balls.
The duo added 76 runs in just 35 balls, helping West Indies reach 195 for 4 in 20 overs in the Super 8 match. Chasing the target, India won the match by five wickets thanks to Sanju Samson’s unbeaten 97 runs and ousted West Indies from the tournament and made it to the semi-finals of T20 World Cup 2026.
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