West Indies captain Shoi Hope, who is scoring runs on the India tour, has also scored a century in the fourth T20 match. In this match being played in Hyderabad, Hope played an unbeaten inning of 102 runs in 50 balls, which included 4 fours and 9 sixes. He completed his third century in T20 International by hitting two sixes on the last two balls of West Indies' innings.
Hope reached 96 by hitting a six on the fifth ball of the last over. After this, he played a flat shot towards long on on Nitish Kumar Reddy's full toss ball, which went through the hands of Tilak Verma and hit the boundary line. Tilak had come into an awkward position while trying to take the catch, due to which the ball went out of his hands and Hope got a six. Hope has set a string of records with this century.
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De Villiers-Gayle left behind
32 year old Hope had his fourth century on this tour. He had scored 2 centuries in the ODI series. After this, he scored a century in the second T20 match played in Ranchi to help West Indies win. Now he has broken the record of South African legend AB de Villiers by scoring a century in Hyderabad. Hope has now become the foreign batsman to score the most international centuries in India. De Villiers had scored 6 international centuries in India. Whereas Hope has 7 international centuries to his name.
Hope left Chris Gayle and Evin Lewis behind in scoring the most T20 International centuries for West Indies. Gayle and Lewis had scored 2-2 T20 International centuries. Hope had equaled both of them in Ranchi and now he has gone ahead of them.
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West Indies scored 247 runs
Thanks to Hope's century, the Caribbean team has scored 247 runs at the loss of 3 wickets. Sharfan Rutherford supported his captain well and scored unbeaten 49 runs in 26 balls with the help of 4 fours and 3 sixes. Shimron Hetmyer scored 33 runs in 12 balls. Javel Andrew contributed 21 runs, while Rovman Powell contributed 24 runs.