Hope among the Caribbean’s best at ILT20

DUBAI - West In­dies and Bar­ba­dos bats­man Shai Hope stole the spot­light for the cham­pi­ons Dubai Cap­i­tals, by se­cur­ing the Green Belt for the sea­son’s best bat­ter in the just-con­clud­ed ILT20 in Dubai in the Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates.

Hope’s con­sis­tent bril­liance with the bat was in­stru­men­tal in the Cap­i­tals’ suc­cess as his vi­tal 43-run knock in the fi­nal took his tour­na­ment tal­ly to 527 runs at an im­pres­sive av­er­age of 58.55, edg­ing out MI Emi­rates’ Tom Ban­ton in a close­ly con­test­ed race for the Green Belt.

The styl­ish right-han­der was one of on­ly two cen­tu­ri­ons in the tour­na­ment, un­der­lin­ing his dom­i­nance in a league filled with world-class tal­ent.