Shai Hope: Time to recognise his greatness?
27.11.25, 23:21 Updated 27.11.25, 23:28
If you took a straw poll of West Indies cricket fans and asked them to name their favourite WI player of all time, very few, if any, would answer: Shai Hope. Yet, at the time of writing, he is well on his way to placing his name among the pantheon of West Indies greats.
At the age of 32, with three or four prime years ahead, Shai stands seventh on West Indies’ all-time ODI run-scorer leaderboard.
In terms of the number of hundreds, Chris Gayle leads the list with 25, but Shai is in joint-second place, tied with Brian Lara on 19. He seems likely to surpass Lara, but could he even go so far as to pass Gayle too?
Shai has done all of this in 148 ODI matches at an average of 51 and with a strike rate of 80. To place that in perspective, Gayle and Lara posted their records in 298 and 295 matches respectively, and only Gayle and Viv Richards set their run-scoring records at a better strike rate.
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