Personal

Name

Shai Hope
Full Name

Shai Diego Hope
Country

West Indies
Gender

Male
Date of Birth

November 10, 1993

Sport Profile

Sport

Cricket
Discipline

Men's Cricket
Role

Right-handed Wicketkeeper batsman
Level

National, International
Teams

West Indies, Barbados, Barbados Tridents, Barbados Under-19
Profile

Shai Hope is a Barbadian cricketer, who plays for the national cricket team of West Indies since 2015. He plays for Tests and ODI formats and represents Barbados Tridents at domestic level.

Shai is a wicketkeeper-batsman and occasionally bowls in left-arm medium-fast style. He used to play for Barbados Under-19 team and has represented the England Cricket team in his domestic days. His elder brother Kyle Hope is also a West Indian cricketer, who represents West Indies internationally in Tests and ODI formats.

Shai Hope came into the limelight for his glorious innings in Regional Four Day Competition in 2014-2015 seasons with a double century. After this, he got selected for the national team of West Indies and made his international debut in 2015 through a test match.

He made his ODI and T20I debut consecutively in 2016 & 2017 and became a key member of the national squad since then. He was named in the team of West Indies for the 2019 ICC Cricket World Cup.
(as Compiled by Madhushree Das Ghosh)
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Career Information

Debut Test Match: at Kensington Oval Stadium Vs England on 1st of May in 2015

Last Test Match: at Darren Sammy National Cricket Stadium Vs England on 9th of February in 2019

Debut ODI Match: at Harare Sports Club Stadium Vs Sri Lanka on 16th of November in 2016

Last ODI: at The Village Stadium Vs Bangladesh on 17th of May in 2019

Debut T20I Match: at Sexton Oval Stadium Vs New Zealand on 29th of December in 2017

Last T20I Match: at Warner Park Stadium Vs England on 10th of March in 2019

Batting Career:

He has scored 1459 runs in 29 matches in 4 years of Test career at an average of 28.06 and strike rate of 42.76 including 2 hundreds and 5 fifties (as on May 30, 2019)
He has scored 2247 runs in 52 matches in 3 years of ODI career at an average of 49.93 and strike rate of 76.35 including 6 hundreds and 10 fifties (as on May 30, 2019)
He has scored 186 runs in 12 matches in 2 years of T20I career at an average of 18.6 and strike rate of 144.19 (as on May 30, 2019)

Wicket Keeping Career:

He has 36 catches, 1 stumping, and 2 run out in 29 matches in 5 years of Test career (as on May 30, 2019)
He has 48 catches, 9 stumpings, and 1 run out in 52 matches in 8 years of ODI career (as on May 30, 2019)
He has 5 catches in 12 matches in 7 years of T20I career (as on May 30, 2019)
Achievements/Records Associated With

CWI Men’s Cricketer of the Year, Test Cricketer of the Year, and ODI Cricketer of the Year in 2018
One of the Five Wisden Cricketers of the Year 2018
Highest opening partnership in ODI (365 runs with John Campbell)