I'm a big fan of the "GPS Theory" when you miss a turn, your GPS doesn't judge you, it recalculates. No matter how many detours you take, it finds another way forward. Life works like that too. You'll make mistakes, but your destination doesn't vanish. The route just changes.
He could have chased the leagues like everyone else. Instead he stayed, averaged 50 in ODIs, and carried West Indies. Talk about Shai Hope more.
It is genuine good fortune for West Indies cricket that Shai Hope is still here, still in touch, and still theirs. In an era when player after player has gone the way of the leagues, Hope stayed with the international game, and he has repaid that loyalty by being one of their main performers, year after year.
The ODI record is pretty insane: 145 innings, 6,256 runs, an average of 50.86 at a strike rate of 80.03, with 19 hundreds and 32 fifties. An average above 50 sustained across 145 innings is elite in any era, for any team, and he has done it for a side that so often depends on him entirely.
And it holds across conditions, home, away, wherever. This is what I would call excellent grunt work, the unglamorous, repeated carrying of a batting order, done for years now without the spotlight that others get for less.
I hope people start recognising him properly, because Shai Hope deserves to be spoken of among the best in the format. The consistency is remarkable. The loyalty makes it more so.
One of the best pieces of advice I ever got: If you want a calmer life, you need to address small problems while they’re still small. The cost of dealing with an issue rarely gets cheaper with time. Procrastination turns uncomfortable things into unavoidable things.
Hayley Matthews joined Stafanie Taylor and Deandra Dottin to become the 3rd West Indies Woman to a 150+ individual ODI score.👏🏾
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My plea is for the West Indies to give much more bowling consistency of bowling in as many games as possible over the next couple of years to Janillea Glasgow, Claxton and Alleyne. Let them learn to occupy roles in the team and learn to bowl under pressure each game. Seam bowling is much needed as much as spin. Even in Pakistan 2028.
it is an unwritten rule of life that after every prolonged period of hardship and uncertainty, there is going to be a period when you are going to achieve quantum leaps across multiple areas of your life. the only requirement is that you do not give up on yourself.
The West Indies have been fined 10 per cent of their match fee and penalised two ICC World Test Championship points for maintaining a slow over-rate against Sri Lanka in the second Test played in North Sound, Saint George, Antigua and Barbuda.