West Indies interim head coach Nicho Pothas held a discrete training session in the aftermath of their combined team’s pre-match day practice session for the second Twenty20 fixture of the three-Twenty20 series at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium (SBNCS) in Mirpur yesterday.

Pothas worked with promising youngster batsman Shimron Hetmyer alone for so long beside the cenere wickets of the SBNCS, where they will get down against the hosts Bangladesh to ensure their T20 series triumph though he also did with some other players including Nicolas Pooran.

The left-handed batsman played only six T20 matches after being debuted against New Zealand in Twenty20 cricket in January, 2018. Of these matches, the south-paw batsman did not get opportunity to bat in two outings. Coincidently, those were his career first appearance against New Zealand and last match against Bangladesh in T20.   

Before coming here in Bangladesh for the over month-long Bangladesh tour, West Indies toured India where he played three matches against Indian side, where he cracked 10, 15 and 26.

Most importantly, the batsman struck 26 in Chennai against top-flight team what was his highest knock in Twenty20 so far.

Throughout the Bangladesh tour, Hetmyer- the young and potential batsman of the Caribbean side- is yet to showcase his worth and talent with his bat especially ODI series. He mustered only 20 runs in total in the three-match ODI series, where his scores were 0, 14 and 6.

The Guyana-born batsman came into discussion for a reason which was totally different. He lost his wickets six times, out of seven to off-spinner Mehidy Hasan Miraj.

And so, Nic Pothas tried to tune up Hetmyer and learn him how to handle the spinning attack and how to bat against spinners so that the 21-year-old batsman can break his jinx against spinning attack and come into runs at the fag’s end of the tour.