West Indies cricket team vs Pakistan national cricket team match: Shai Hope has been a remarkable performer for the West Indies in white-ball cricket over the past few years.
He produced a magnificent effort during the third and final ODI match between the West Indies and Pakistan in Trinidad on Tuesday.
Hope put up a show with the bat at the Brian Lara Stadium and smashed an incredible century after the West Indies were put into bat first. He played a crucial knock of 120 runs in just 94 balls on the back of 10 fours and five sixes. His effort helped the hosts post a huge total of 294/6 in their 50 overs.
Shai Hope etched his name in the history books as this was his 18th ODI century. He extended his lead on third spot for wicket-batters (WK)with the most tons, with only Kumar Sangakkara (23) and Quinton de Kock (21) ahead of him. Notably, the 31-year-old is only the second player in history, after MS Dhoni, to have five or more centuries under his belt as a wicketkeeper-captain. Hope went past AB de Villiers in the elite list.
Wicketkeeper captains with most ODI centuries
MS Dhoni (IND): 6 centuries
Shai Hope (WI): 5 centuries
Ab de Villiers (SA): 4 centuries
Tom Latham (NZ): 2 centuries
Monank Patel (USA): 2 centuries
Hope is only the third WK Batter captain to score a century against Pakistan in an ODI game after Dhoni and de Villiers. This was Hope’s second century against Pakistan, making him only the third wicket-keeper batter after Jos Buttler (3) and Dhoni (2) with multiple tons in the ODI format against the Men in Green.
Shai Hope goes past Brian Lara to create elite record
The right-handed batter Shai Hope has now equalled Brian Lara’s record of most centuries in ODIs as captain of the West Indies. He has scored five centuries in the 50-over format of the game as the skipper of the team.
During his 17-year-long ODI career, Lara played 125 ODIs as captain of the West Indies and scored five centuries, whereas Hope has captained the national side in just 38 ODI matches so far.
Most ODI centuries for West Indies as captain
Shai Hope: 5 centuries in 38 matches
Brian Lara: 5 centuries in 125 matches
Chris Gayle: 4 centuries in 53 matches
Viv Richards: 3 centuries in 105 matches
Richie Richardson: 2 centuries in 87 matches
Hope has now taken the third position in the list of batters with the most 100s for the West Indies team in ODI cricket. Only Chris Gayle (25) and Lara (19) are ahead of him now.
Most ODI centuries for West Indies
Chris Gayle: 25 centuries in 298 matches (10425 runs)
Brian Lara: 19 centuries in 295 matches (10348 runs)
Shai Hope: 18 centuries in 142 matches (5879 runs)
Desmond Haynes: 17 centuries in 238 matches (8648 runs)
Gordon Greenidge: 11 centuries in 128 matches (5134 runs)
West Indies vs Pakistan 3rd ODI Playing XIs:
West Indies: Brandon King, Evin Lewis, Keacy Carty, Shai Hope (c & wk), Sherfane Rutherford, Roston Chase, Justin Greaves, Romario Shepherd, Gudakesh Motie, Shamar Joseph, Jayden Seales
Pakistan: Abdullah Shafique, Saim Ayub, Babar Azam, Mohammad Rizwan (c & wk), Salman Agha, Hasan Nawaz, Hussain Talat, Mohammad Nawaz, Hasan Ali, Naseem Shah, Abrar Ahmed