Shay Hope scored a century against Sri Lanka (Photo-GETTY IMAGES)
West Indies vs Sri Lanka, 2nd Test: West Indies wicketkeeper Shay Hope scored a brilliant century on the fourth day of the second match being played at the Vivian Richards Stadium in Antigua. Hope scored the fifth century of his Test career while this is his 25th century in international cricket. Shay Hope looked very happy after this century but this player is also being accused of dishonesty.
Shay Hope But the allegation is that when he was playing on 89 runs, the ball took the edge of his bat but did not give him out and he himself did not return to the pavilion. This allegation has been made by Sri Lankan cricket writer Nibaraj Ramzan. Shay Hope got the benefit of this donation of life and this player completed his century in 199 balls. Shay Hope played an innings of 112 runs in 243 balls which included 10 fours.
Shay Hope's test century is very special. That is because till August 2017, he did not score a single Test century in the 8 years of his career, but now he has five Test centuries to his name. The big thing is that he has scored three centuries in the last five test matches. Shay Hope has scored her first Test century against Sri Lanka and this is her first Test century on her home soil. Let us tell you that Shay Hope has scored 19 ODI centuries in his international career. He has one century to his name in T20 also and now he has scored five centuries in Test also. Let us tell you that Shay Hope made a partnership of 242 runs with Justin Greaves for the fifth wicket. This player also scored the third century of his Test career and till the time of writing the news, Greaves had also touched the figure of 150.
Batting first, Sri Lanka had scored 549 runs. Opener Lahiru Udara played an excellent inning of 188 runs. Kamendu Mendis scored 84 runs. Kusal Mendis scored 69 runs and Sonal Dinusha, who came to bat at number seven, played an excellent inning of 92 runs. Sri Lanka's aim was that after making such a big score, they would quickly dispose of the West Indies. Apart from John Campbell's 72 runs, the wickets of Brandon Kin, Kavem Hodge, Aamir Jangu fell early but then the huge partnership of Shay Hope and Justin Greaves dashed Sri Lanka's hopes.
