Sampath Bandarupalli … ESPNcricinfo.com
“West Indies mow down second-highest T20I chase
Shai Hope is the only wicketkeeper-captain to hit a T20I century, and he’s done it twice now ……………
Shai Hope hit an unbeaten 102 • Getty Images
250 Target that West Indies chased down in the second T20I against India at Ranchi. It marks the second-highest successful chase in T20Is, behind South Africa’s 259 against West Indies at Centurion in 2023.
4 Number of 250-plus totals for West Indies in T20Is, the joint-second most by any team in the format. England also have four. India have scored 250-plus seven times and fell short of their eighth by a run on Friday, finishing with 249 for 5.
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This is their highest total against West Indies beating the 244 for 4 at Lauderhill, Florida in 2016. West Indies made 245 for 6 batting first that day.
501 Total runs in 38.3 overs in Ranchi on Friday, making it the second-highest match aggregate in T20I cricket. The highest is 517 runs during the Centurion T20I between South Africa and West Indies three years ago.
45 Balls Shai Hope took for his hundred, the second-fastest in men’s T20Is for West Indies. Johnson Charles hit the fastest off 39 balls in 2023 against South Africa.
382 Runs that India and West Indies scored through boundaries on Friday, the third-most in a T20I. West Indies alone scored 204, their most in a T20I and the second-most by a team in a chase, behind 214 by Bulgaria against Gibraltar in 2025.
2 Hundreds by wicketkeeper-captains in T20I cricket; both by Hope. He had scored a previous 102* against Australia last year at Basseterre.
Hope’s 162* last week in New Chandigarh was the highest ODI score by a keeper-captain. The six-day gap between an ODI 150 and a T20I 100 is the shortest for any batter.
The previous shortest gap was seven days, set by Melie Kerr earlier this year against South Africa, while the shortest among men was eight days, by Rohit Sharma against West Indies in 2018.
20 Sixes that West Indies hit in Ranchi, the second-most by any team against India in T20Is, behind the 21 they hit in 2016 in Lauderhill. This was the fourth time West Indies hit 20 or more sixes in a T20I match.
120 run partnership between Hope and Sherfane Rutherford. It is the highest fourth-wicket partnership for West Indies in men’s T20Is and their second-highest for the fourth or a lower wicket. Rutherford added 139 with Andre Russell for the sixth wicket against Australia in 2024.
West Indies’ win probability, as per Cricinfo’s forecaster, was only 6.08% at the start of the partnership, but stood at 37.66% when Rutherford got out.
14.64 Economy rate for left-arm spinners on Friday, the worst for them in a men’s T20I in which they bowled ten or more overs. India’s left-arm spinners alone conceded 116 runs in 7.3 overs at a rate of 15.46, the second-worst for any team in a men’s T20I (min five overs).
184 Runs scored by Sanju Samson (82) and Hope (102*). These are the second-most runs scored by wicketkeepers in a T20I match, behind the 188 runs in the Bulgaria-Serbia T20I in 2022. Samson and Hope also became the first pair of keepers to score 80 or more in the same T20I.
