Shimron Hetmyer and Shai Hope hit centuries and combined in a stand of 218 runs to guide West Indies to an eight-wicket victory over India in the series opener of the three-match ODI series at the Chepauk s📖tadium in Chennai on Sunday.
Hetmyer took just 106 balls fo🍬r his highest ODI score of 139 and his second-wicket partnership with Hope, who remained unbeaten on 102, helped Windies chase down a target of 288 with 13 balls to spare.
Earlier, half-centuries from R⛎ishabh Pant (71) and Shreyas Iyer (70) helped India to recover from a shaky start and post 287-8 in their stipulated 50 overs.
Well, the 288-run target achieved by ܫWest Indies in the firs🦩t ODI is also a record by any team against India in Chennai.
Here’s how Twitter reacted:
Contrasting 💯s but none more important than the other 👍
Congrats team windies 👏— Brian Lara (@BrianLara)
An ODI game in Chennai and not a single wicket to spinners. 🐠Who would’ve thought? Top stuff from Hetmeyer and Hope. Radically Different ways of succeeding oꦅn the same surface. A knockout series for India now.
— Aakash Chopra (@cricketaakash)
What a stunning innings it was from Shimron Hetmyer, one of the best played by an overseas batsman in Indi🐭a in recent times and Shai Hope complimented him so beautifully and this is a really well deserved win f🎃or WI.
— Mohammad Kaif (@MohammadKaif)
Never seen such a dominant win from a touring team in India, nor heard an Indian crowd so quiet at the end of the🍸 game. Everyไone is stunned😯
— Daniel Beswick (@DGBeswick1)
Well played young man! Any hundred a🐈gainst India in India in any format means you are a quality player.
— R P Singh रुद्र प्रताप सिंह (@rpsingh)
Very controlled 5th Odi century from Shimron Hetmyer. He has paced this innin☂gs with such calm body language and assured shot selection; it has the feel of a player who has gone up another step in his maturity👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻.
— Ian Raphael Bishop (@irbishi)
More power to you lads 👊🏻👏🏻
— Sir Vivian Richards (@ivivianrichards)
🇮🇳v🌴 That winning moment!❤ WI win by 8 wickets!🙌🏾 G﷽reat job boys!!👊🏾
— Windies Cricket (@windiescricket)
Congratulations🐓 to West Indies on winning the🅘 first ODI 👏🏻
— BCCI (@BCCI)
Congrat♒ulations for winning the game at our den.. team india will bounce back in the next game 👍✅ and cro⭕wd always to good in chennai 🤗
— Harbhajan Turbanator (@harbhajan_singh)
Very impressed by Shimron Hetmyer, showed great maturity and turned the game firmly in WI's favour. Great support from Shai Hope as well and this is a very deserving win for the West Indies. Promises to be a very exciting series
— VVS Laxman (@VVSLaxman281)
The high﷽est successful run-chase in 𒀰Chennai as the hard-hitters of take a 1-0 lead!
Shimron Hetmyer or Shai Hope – whose century made you go 🤩?
— Hotstar Canada (@hotstarcanada)
Hope 💜and Hetmyer joine🉐d forces to help West Indies beat in Chennai and take a 1⃣-0⃣ lead in the series. 👏
But tension 🤪lene di lod nai, expect 🇮🇳 to c🧸ome back stronger! 💪
— Punjab Kings (@PunjabKingsIPL)
Shai Hope in ODI cricket in Asia:
Innings – 12
Runs – 878
Best – 146*
Average – 146.33
SR – 76.68
100s / 50s – 5 / 2Among the players with 500+ ODI runs in Asia, the average of 66.50 by Anshuman Rath is the best after Shai Hope's 146.33!!
— Sampath Bandarupalli (@SampathStats)
Centuries from Hetmyer and Hope guide West Indies to a conviﷺncing win in the series opener.
— SunRisers Hyderabad (@SunRisers)
