Simran Hetmyer and Rovman Powell's aggressive batting helped West Indies beat Zimbabwe by 107 runs in the Super Eights of the Twenty20 World Cup on Monday.

Hetmyer's 34-ball 85 helped the two-time champions West Indies post 254 for 6 in 20 overs. This is the second highest score in the Twenty20 World Cup.

Zimbabwe captain Sikandar Raja won the toss and elected to bowl at the Wankhede Stadium, which turned out to be very dangerous. Zimbabwe's bowlers proved to be very weak against the West Indies' power hitter batters. West Indies were only a few wickets shy of Sri Lanka's 260-6 against Kenya in the 2007 Twenty20 World Cup.

Ireland's 235-5 against Oman in Colombo was easily surpassed by the West Indies. Zimbabwe gave life to Devrehate Hetmyer, who came to the crease at 17-1 after Brandon King was dismissed for 9 runs. He was caught by Tashinga Musekwa at deep fine leg when he was on 9 runs.

Hetmyer took full advantage of this and reached his half-century in 19 balls. He hit 5 sixes and 4 fours in the process. Hetmyer equaled the record set by South Africa's Aiden Markram for the fastest half-century in the tournament. He was not going to stop there. When Hetmyer and Powell were at the crease together, the West Indies were 54-2. The two then completed their century partnership in 45 balls.

The two added 122 runs for the third wicket in 52 balls as West Indies reached 176 runs in 15 overs. Hetmyer got his second life in 70 runs. He hit a total of 7 sixes and 7 fours. Powell hit 4 fours and 4 sixes while scoring 59 runs in 35 balls. Zimbabwe's Richard Ngarabha and Blessing Muzarawani took 2 wickets each. But captain Raja ended up losing 52 runs in 3 overs.

West Indies crossed the 200-run mark after Serfan Rutherford scored an unbeaten 31 runs in 13 balls. Romario Shepherd scored 21 runs in 10 balls and Jason Holder scored 13 runs in 4 balls.