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After the 2016 T20 World Cup, the Caribbeans haven’t found themselves near an ICC trophy, and they have hit rock bottom now with not being able to qualify for the World Cup 2023. Is it the potential that they lack? Or is it the talent? Well, it’s none, when they have the biggest hope in Shai Hope along with the likes of Alick Athanaze, Sherfane Rutherford, Yannic Cariah, and other young guns with the hunger to do better for the team. 

One name among these youngsters who has been making rounds for the last few months, Sherfane Rutherford, has finally made his ODI debut for the West Indies. He is known to be a T20 specialist and can smack the long balls with ease. Although, he hasn’t been up to the mark in the six T20 games he has featured for the Caribbeans, while he was just 20 years old. 

How can Sherfane Rutherford be the perfect gun for the Windies setup?

Team England may have won the second match of the ODI series against the Windies, but the Caribbeans have won Sherfane Rutherford. While everyone struggled to contribute with the bat except Shai Hope, who rarely gets dismissed early, it was the 25-year-old Rutherford who stood tall with the captain and displayed character, scoring 63 off 80 deliveries, that too in his second game. 

Being 23-4 in seven overs, there comes a promise in the middle in the form of a menacing left-hander, Sherfane Rutherford. He came, he stayed, and he showed what he can do when he gets going. The Caribbean power, the elegance of a left-hander, and the running between the wickets, he has it all. 

Back in 2018, when Rutherford was not even 19, in the Global T20 League while playing for West Indies B, he smashed 134 not out off just 66 deliveries, and the sixes he smashed were way out of the ground, just the way the Caribbean fans are used to seeing from the bat of Kieron Pollard, Chris Gayle, and Darren Sammy. 

Rutherford eventually was included in the T20 squad of the West Indies team but was not able to make the opportunity count as he could only score 43 in four T20I innings. 

The year 2023 has been a great one for him as he became the player of the tournament in the Global T20 League Canada, scoring 220 runs in eight innings including the highest score of 84* with a staggering average of 44 while playing for Montreal Tigers and helped the team clinch the trophy. And it was nothing but icing on the cake as he received his maiden ODI call up for the series against England. 

Well, there’s another promise that he brings with his skillset, which is his ability to roll the arm with the ball.

Despite being a hard-hitting left-handed batter, he possesses the skills to bowl right-arm medium as he took the wicket of Will Jack, who was on 73 in the second ODI. 

The Guyanese Sherfane Rutherford with the ruthlessness he carries in the way he bats and the character he showed in his only second One Day International, looks promising and can be another Caribbean-manufactured white-ball gun.

He fits perfectly in the middle-order being a left-hander along with Shimron Hetmyer.

As we inch closer to the T20 World Cup 2024, West Indies being the hosts would hope he keeps him intact and will surely be included in the team for the big tournament. 

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