Shay Hope leaves Shubman Gill behindImage Credit source: PTI
Team India’s star batsman and captain of two formats, Shubman Gill has returned to the field after recovering from a neck injury. Gill, who was out midway through the Test series against South Africa due to injury, could not even play the ODI series but now he has made a comeback in the T20 series. However, his start here was not good and he was out after scoring only 4 runs. The other batsman took advantage of this and now he has gone ahead of him. This batsman is West Indies’ ODI and T20 captain Shay Hope, who now has the most runs in his name in 2025.
Another strong innings from Hope in New Zealand
In the first ODI match between India and South Africa Shubhman Gill Had failed. West Indies star batsman Shay Hope took advantage of this. Hope played a strong innings on the first day of the second Test match between West Indies and New Zealand. Where the rest of the West Indies middle order batsmen disappointed, Hope held the innings in check.
Hope, who scored a brilliant century in the first Test match against New Zealand, continued his good form. However, this time he could not play a big innings but in the first innings of the match he scored the maximum of 48 runs for the team. On the basis of these 48 runs, Hope increased his run count in the year 2025 to 1749 runs in 47 innings, which is the highest in the whole world this year. These runs are in all three formats combined.
Will Shubman Gill be able to make a comeback?
With this, right-handed batsman Hope left behind Indian ODI and Test captain Shubman Gill. Till now in 2025, Gill has scored 1736 runs in 40 innings in all three formats. In such a situation, he has slipped from first number to second place. However, Indian T20 team captain Gill has at least 4 chances to overtake Hope. There are still 4 matches left in the India-South Africa T20 series and Gill can again make a record by scoring strongly in all four of them.
This was how the game of the first day was
If we talk about the New Zealand-West Indies Test match, then on the first day, West Indies had a good start with an opening partnership of 66 runs, but after that the team’s batsmen could not take advantage of this start. Before being ruled out of the match due to injury, fast bowler Blair Tickner had reduced West Indies to just 205 runs by taking 4 wickets. Apart from him, 30 year old pacer Michael Ray, who was making his debut, also took 3 wickets.