Retire from test cricket, if not, he will just humiliate himself further, his attitude to the bouncer will make him the laughing stock of the cricketing world, now I understand why he wanted nothing to do with test cricket

@bird

Yet has moved his average from 24 to 27. He working on it, he the least of our problems.

Ganga average was under 26, so Shai tick one more off the list. Go Hopey!

@natty_forever

if your star player is this incompetent at a fundamental skill of test cricket, then that is a big problem

@bird

I swear that you folks are downright ludicrous, it's not even funny any more.

@Jumpstart

Star ODI player, Hope never said he was for Test.

Imagine the scores the team would put up without Shai Hope...it would be even worse...

@4REALQUICKS

shai averages 27 in test cricket as a #3........stating that he somehow improves the wi test scores is like saying a boy who gets 10 out of 100 on a pure math exam is better than the child who got 5.....they are both failing.....terribly. the difference is academic

@natty_forever

look, Shai was suppose to be one of the modern greats, but, he lacks the character, scared of the ball hitting him, what do you think bowlers will do to him, here on

@Jumpstart

My comment relates to how he fits in the side TODAY, not in years past. In the past year, his 14 innings have brought over 500 runs at an average approaching 40. No West Indies batsman comes close as of now.

@4REALQUICKS

he scored a hundred in a match versus india that was already lost and a very good hundred on a wicket that had flattened out remarkably out i wouldn't begrudge his commitment . Shai hope was in the team when the australians came here.....he did nothing and struggled with the same delivery type he's struggling with now

@bird

simple solution if yuh afraid of getting hit...tighten yuh technique so you minimize the chances

@Jumpstart

Playing the short ball comes down to one very important factor. Quick decision making. Either get out of the way or attack it. Hope has not and perhaps never will be in true command of the short pitched bowling he faces. That said, few batsmen are absolute masters of the short ball and none are masters of those brute deliveries that head for the throat. There is no spectacle in cricket like a good bit of chin music / leather sniffing...well, unless you are the one holding the bat 😆

@Jumpstart

He bat's at #4, average was 24 before he came back. Up to 27. That # 😂

@4REALQUICKS

comes down to technique homes. tendulkar and Ponting were the best players of the short ball in the 90s and 2000s....they barely got hit, even though they had weaknesses elsewhere. shai's technique is so wobbly, even his movements to spinners are exaggerated. not everybody is viv and lara to get lash and still power on to a hundred and I would strongly suggest that nobody uses that strategy. they were geniuses so they could get away with it. Shai is not so he has to tighten that technique