Stats: Hope powers West Indies to second-highest T20I chase

All the key stats from the six-fest between India and the West Indies in Ranchi in 2026

250 – The 250-run target gunned down by the West Indies made it the second-highest successful chase in Men’s T20Is, only behind 259 chased by South Africa against them in Centurion in 2023. Overall, it was the seventh successful chase of 250 or more in all T20s, and three of them have come this year, including an all-time high of 267 by Washington Freedom against MI New York during MLC 2026.

501 – This was also the second-highest match-aggregate in a Men’s T20I, following 517 in the aforementioned Centurion 2023 game. India features in four of the top five entries here, including three in 2026.

4 – West Indies now have four 250-plus totals in T20Is, the second-most, with England too having scored as many. India have seven, and they finished one short on Friday (249/5).

79 – 46 fours and 33 sixes made it for the third highest boundary count in a T20I. West Indies smashed 20 out of those 33 maximums, their joint third-most in a T20I. It was also the second-highest six-count against India in the format; West Indies had smashed 21 at Lauderhill in 2016.

There have been 10 instances of a team hitting 20 or more sixes in a Men’s T20I featuring two full-member teams. West Indies (including today) and India have done that four times each, while Afghanistan and England did it once each.

382 runs came via boundaries in the game, the third-highest in a T20I.

6 days – Within a week’s span, Shai Hope played the lead role in West Indies’ highest run-chases in both white-ball international formats, having scored 162* in their successful 352-run chase in the third ODI in New Chandigarh. Six days is the shortest gap between a 150-plus ODI score and a T20I hundred for any player. There have been five instances of players managing this double within a two-week span, three of them to Rohit Sharma.

It’s also the third-shortest gap between an ODI hundred and T20I hundred for anyone in Men’s internationals. Four days separated Rohit Sharma’s 100* in the third T20I at Bristol and the 137* in the ODI series opener at Trent Bridge during the 2018 England tour. Aaron Finch scored 148 in an ODI against Scotland at Edinburgh in 2013, shortly after his 156 against England at Southampton (T20I) earlier that season.

Shortest gap between a 150-plus ODI score and T20I hundred

2 – This was Hope’s second T20I hundred, joint-most for the West Indies alongside Chris Gayle and Evin Lewis. Johnson Charles and Rovman Powell have got one each. Overall, it was his 15th 50-plus score in the format, a number matched by Evin Lewis and only one short of Chris Gayle’s 16 among West Indies batters.

45 balls taken by Shai Hope to get to his hundred, the second-fastest for West Indies, after Johnson Charles had got there in 39 balls at Centurion in 2023. It was also the joint-fastest T20I hundred for anyone against India. Jacob Bethell too, had got there in 45 balls in the T20 WC 2026 semis at Wankhede.

2 – There have been two T20I hundreds by a wicketkeeper captain in Men’s T20Is, both to Shai Hope with identical scores of 102*, the previous having come against Australia at Basseterre last year. Scott Edwards’ 99 for Netherlands against Oman at Al Amerat in 2024 is the next best in this list.

His 162* in New Chandigarh last week is the highest score by a wicketkeeper captain in ODIs, bettering AB de Villiers’ 149 against West Indies in Johannesburg in 2015. Overall, he has 10 tons as a wicketkeeper captain in internationals (eight in ODIs and two in T20Is), only one fewer than MS Dhoni’s 11. No one else has more than four.

184 runs totalled by the two glovemen on the day (Hope’s 102* and Sanju Samson’s 82) is the second-highest for the keepers combined in a Men’s T20I. Serbia’s Leslie Dunbar (117) and Bulgaria’s Saim Hussain (71) scored 188 between them in Sofia in 2022.

10 – Shreyas Iyer’s 10-match winning streak as a captain ended on Friday, the second-longest by an Indian skipper after 14 for Rohit between November 2019 and July 2022. Rohit’s eight-match sequence at the T20 World Cup 2024 ranks third on this list.

1 – There have been 144 players to have aggregated 5000-plus runs in Men’s T20 cricket till date, Tilak Varma and Sherfane Rutherford becoming the latest entrants to this list. Of those, 45 have done that while maintaining a strike-rate of 140 or higher. Five of the 144 players average 40 or more. Tilak is the only one to have aggregated over 5000 runs while striking at over 140 and averaging 40-plus (5031 runs at 41.57, SR: 145.36).

Tilak took 166 innings to get to the mark, making him the fifth-fastest among India batters after KL Rahul (143), Ruturaj Gaikwad (145), Shubman Gill (154) and Abhishek Sharma (165).

120 – The 120-run partnership between Hope and Sherfane Rutherford was the second-highest stand for the fourth wicket or lower for West Indies in T20Is, only behind 139 between Rutherford and Andre Russell against Australia in Perth in 2024. It was also their second-highest (for any wicket) against India, after the 126-run opening partnership between Johnson Charles and Evin Lewis at Lauderhill in 2016.

3 – Rutherford now has three consecutive 50-plus scores in T20Is, the joint second-most for West Indies alongside Chris Gayle (January 2015 – March 2016), Evin Lewis (July 2017 – May 2018) and Nicholas Pooran (February 2022), and only behind Gayle’s four in 2012.