Shai Hope's love affair with Team India continues as he achieves several feats

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In the fourth T20I match against Team India, the West Indies emerged victorious by 24 runs at the Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium in Hyderabad.

During the match, the West Indies’ skipper Shai Hope delivered a stunning knock of an unbeaten 102 runs off just 50 deliveries. His knock was laced with four boundaries and nine maximums. With this, the right-handed batsman has achieved several feats.

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He became the fourth West Indies’ batsman to complete 2000 runs in the shortest format of the game. Before him, Rovman Powell (2400), Nicholas Pooran (2275) and Brandon King (2028) have achieved the feat.

Now in 74 T20Is, the 32-year-old cricketer has made 2,004 runs at an average of 33.40 and a strike rate of 141.82, with three centuries and 13 fifties.

Riding on his century, Hope has overtaken Chris Gayle and Evin Lewis (two centuries each) for most T20I tons by a Caribbean batsman.

He also joined Phil Salt, Sanju Samson, Tilak Varma, and Mohammad Ihsan as the fifth batsman to smash two T20I centuries in a bilateral series.

Hope is also level with Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, and Sahibzada Farhan for the most fifty-plus scores (three each) in a bilateral series among the Test-playing nations.

The Barbados-born cricketer is also sharing the top spot with Gayle for the most fifty-plus scores for the Caribbean side in T20Is, with 16 half-centuries each.

Additionally, this was his fourth century of the ongoing tour against Team India across the ODI and T20I contests. The incumbent West Indies’ skipper has been enjoying a rich vein of form and will look to continue riding on the momentum.

The victory has helped the visitors to level the series at 2-2, with one match yet to be played. The fifth T20I match between the Caribbean team and the “Men in Blue” is scheduled to be played on October 17 at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru.

The fifth clash promises to be a thriller, considering that both teams will look to end the series on a positive note.

(With ANI Inputs)

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