Shai Hope, on Sunday, July 24, grew to change into the 10th batter to ranking a century within the 100th ODI. The factual-handed batter performed the feat within the course of the West Indies’s first ODI against India at the Queen’s Park Oval in Port of Spain, Trinidad. He additionally grew to change into the fourth West Indian batter to reach the milestone.
The a lot of batters to non-public performed the milestone are Gordon Greenidge, Chris Cairns, Mohammad Yousuf, Kumar Sangakkara, Chris Gayle, Marcus Trescothick, Ramnaresh Sarwan, David Warner and Shikhar Dhawan.
Hope failed to web coming into into the first ODI, perishing against Mohammed Siraj after scoring seven runs off 18 balls. But the 28-yr-dilapidated neatly and in level of truth made amends. Hope didn’t throw his wicket and took his time to web his eyes in and web the measure of the instances.
After the hosts opted to bat first, Hope stitched collectively a 65-urge partnership for the hole wicket with the in-set apart Kyle Mayers, who scored 39 runs off 23 balls.
Thereafter, he changed into enthusiastic on every other to hand partnership of 117 runs with Nicholas Pooran, who injected impetus into the innings with a neatly-made half-century.
Hope took his time and got to his half-century off 69 balls. At 95, Hope launched Yuzvendra Chahal into the stands to elevate up his century off 125 balls.
He didn’t waste there and smashed Chahal for every other six over the off-aspect boundary. Hope had slowed down a wee bit for round 10 overs, however managed to up the ante within the hour of need. Hope at demonstrate averages over 50 with 13 centuries in ODIs
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