WI vs IND: Shai Hope and Oshane Thomas return as West Indies announce squad for T20I series
Cricket | August 01, 2023 7:43 ISTWest Indies have announced their squad to take on the Indian cricket team in a five-match T20I series.
West Indies have announced their squad to take on the Indian cricket team in a five-match T20I series.
The three-match ODI series between India and West Indies is locked at 1-1 and the decider is set to be played on August 1. The venue for the third and final ODI is Brian Lara Stadium, Tarouba, Trinidad.
West Indies handed Team India a humiliating defeat after the Men in Blue chose to rest two of their senior batters, skipper Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli as they faltered with the bat.
The pair of Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma is just a few runs away from achieving a historic milestone in the ODI circuit.
West Indies will not play an ODI World Cup for the first time in history in 48 years after they lost their third game in a row in the ongoing CWC qualifiers in Zimbabwe.
West Indies face UAE in the three-match ODI series earlier in June and then play CWC Qualifier 2023 starting on June 18 in Zimbabwe.
West Indies opener Shai Hope displayed some great intent straightaway as he walked into bat. Shai Hope who is playing his 100th ODI for team India had a job on his hands and he exactly did what was expected out of him. The West Indies opener struck 115 runs off 135 deliveries.
Hope opened the innings with Mayers, who was striking the ball at a strike rate of over 150. Mayers' fireworks at the start gave Hope enough time to settle in. Incidentally, this was his 100th ODI as well.
The duo was part of the 15-man squad of Cricket West Indies (CWI) CG Insurance Super50 Cup and was withdrawn after testing positive.
Talking about the decision to drop Hope, Cricket West Indies' chief selector Roger Harper said that he was not "at his best" in the longest format of the game for a while.
The wicketkeeper-batsman has struggled to even breach the 30-run mark in his four innings against England. His scores read 25, 7 16, 9 so far.
Despite being team's key batting mainstay in the ODIs, the 26-year-old from Barbados has scored just 1498 runs in 31 Tests at an average of 27.23. He has 3289 runs at 52.2 in 78 ODIs.
With his dismissal, Hope ended his 2019 ODI tally at 1345 runs (in 28 ODIs) which is the second-highest run tally by a West Indies batsman in a calendar year.
Shai Hope is currently third in the ODI run-getters' list this year with 1225 runs behind Virat Kohli (1292 runs) and Rohit Sharma (1268 runs).
Shimron Hetmyer ended with a record-scripting 139 runs while being ably assisted by another centurion, Shai Hope as the pair stitched an impressive 200-plus partnership to guide West Indies to an eight-wicket win in Chennai
West Indies reached 291-2 in 47.5 overs after Shreyas Iyer and Rishabh Pant scored half-centuries to help India score 287-8.
Chasing a challenging 288 for a victory on a sluggish wicket, 22-year old Hetmyer took 106 balls for his sensational 139 which was studded with 11 fours and seven huge sixes.
Shai Hope shined for Windies in the final ODI in Lucknow as the side cruised to a five-wicket win over Afghanistan.
Wicket-keeper batsman Shai Hope said it will be a sad day for world cricket when Chris Gayle finally calls time on his illustrious international career.
Windies were absolutely ruthless in their batting approach as they posted a monstrous 422 run target for the Black Caps and then defended it easily, securing a 91-run victory.
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