Shai Hope worried about excess baggage after latest Player of the Match award in thrilling India-West Indies series.<\/p>\n
Published On 15 Oct 202615 Oct 2026<\/p>\n
West Indies captain Shai Hope is worried he may \u2060have to fork \u2060out excess baggage fees after picking up his third Player of the Match award on their tour of India.<\/p>\n
The opener\u2019s \u2060unbeaten 102 in the fourth Twenty20 International (T20I) on Wednesday set up a series-levelling win<\/a> in Hyderabad. He also smashed a century in the \u2060second T20I<\/a> in Ranchi.<\/p>\n Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of list<\/p>\n Hope has been in sizzling form throughout the tour, hitting two hundreds in the earlier One-Day International leg. And while he was pleased with his performances, he said he was struggling to fit his \u200cawards in his luggage.<\/p>\n \u201cTo be honest, they are a bit heavy, and we have got to look at the luggage weight,\u201d he quipped after West Indies prevailed by 24 runs.<\/p>\n \u201cI think we are going to have some problems going back home.\u201d<\/p>\n Hope said getting off to a good start in Hyderabad was key.<\/p>\n \u201cWe got 50-plus opening \u2060partnership,\u201d he added. \u201cSo it was good for us to \u2060start innings and then obviously we got that foundation, you can express yourself a bit more in the middle period and then try to give the team the best \u2060finish as good as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n Hope clobbered nine sixes in his 50-ball knock and drew the admiration of \u2060his opponents.<\/p>\n \u201cWe need to respect what he \u2060has been doing,\u201d India opener Sanju Samson said. \u201cHe has been playing some really good cricketing shots, not taking that much risk, and respecting the bowlers as well.\u201d<\/p>\n Hope will look to \u200cgive himself more baggage problems in Saturday\u2019s series decider in Bengaluru.<\/p>\n West Indies will next visit Bangladesh for a two-Test series later this month. \u200cThe \u200chosts will breathe easier knowing Hope is being rested ahead of ODI World Cup qualifiers in February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shai Hope worried about excess baggage after latest Player of the Match award in thrilling India-West Indies series.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":803558,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1487,1721,308,20072,8911,217,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-803557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-asia","tag-cricket","tag-india","tag-jamaica","tag-latin-america","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/803558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}