The opener has come under heavy criticism following his 33-ball 32 

West Indies captain Shai Hope admits his innings against India in Sunday’s Super Eight encounter at the ICC T20 World Cup might have been the difference between the two teams in his side’s 5-wicket loss. 

When asked if a more aggressive approach on his part could have resulted in the Caribbean side adding 15-20 runs to their first innings total of 195 for 4, the Barbadian replied, “Yes, that's my answer, yes.”

Hope hit three boundaries and a maximum before he was bowled by Varun Chakravarthy on 32 with the 33rd delivery that ended his innings. His wicket was the first to fall and left the West Indies 68 for 1 in the 9th over.

“It's one of those things; sometimes you just don't get the ball away,” Hope said. “As much as you’d love to come and hit every single ball for six, it doesn't happen.” 

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It's one of those things; sometimes you just don't get the ball away,” Hope said. “As much as you’d love to come and hit every single ball for six, it doesn't happen.” 

well said skipper, sometimes you just can’t

that’s good leadership, well done sir.

@CaribbeanCricket.com

"HOPE" he learns but he made a contradictory statement

Preferred/acceptable PP=60-70

But 45/0 was ok because we bat deep. Isn't the batting deep advantage why 60-70/2 better than 45/0? Had Sharma and or Yadav faced as many deliveries as Hope at their S/R India would've lost. WI hopefully learned what calculated risks in batting PP means.

When will Sammy speak... I mean take responsibility

16 dot balls in the first 5 overs! 195 /4 with the lowest score at 14 tells you, you are short of runs.

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Oh boy !!!

This was bound to happen. It was just a matter of time that this game plan would hurt us. We have a sacred policy of not utilizing the powerplay. The reason being we have deep fire power.

I can say unreservedly that the dumb ass coach is responsible for this strategy. This is the reason why Sammy has to go and the President of CWI has to go too because he supports mediocrity.

I am piss.

i saw this coming from a thousand miles away and the people being paid to do the job couldn't see it coming.

This is not rocket science...batting resources are not infinite.

The T20 game is to maximize your resources when batting and prevent your opponents from maximizing theirs.

@CaribbeanCricket.com

there is enough blame to go around. Offensively, we’d score around 225, which could have been more defendable, knowing our bowling ain’t top tier.

@Cricket_101

That was the score I wanted game day, losing only 4 wickets was an early indicator that we did not push to the maximum.

@Halliwell

I agree. After all the nitpicking, given a choice of 195 before the game. WI fans would’ve taken it.

@CricSham

I think the dew played a factor here.

@CricSham

before the game fans may agree with you, but during the game fans recognize that that score would not be enough.

@Courtesy

You really not making sense with what you are saying. Hope admitted to not scoring at a top s/r, one of those days, how is that the fault of the Coach. You just like Methodic are of the opinion that the goal in the PP is to score 80+ which is fraught with risks. All the teams have aimed for 60 with limited wicket loss. The one game we lost to south Africa we took your advice and stuttered to 81/7.

Again I maintain there is no need to take max risk. If Hope had scored his usual 130 s/r we would have had 220 easily. That was Hope's role, bat at 130 and he failed that is why he took the blame.

I just want to say that being a wicket keeper and captain is a heavy burden! Not ideal! Someone else needs to be appointed captain!

@voiceofreason

As usual you are either being economical with the truth or perhaps feeding perfidy with steroids.

Firstly, I have never advovated that an ideal PP score should be 80 plus....NEVER. Infac, when Methodic advocated this PP score in a post, I said it would be taking huge risks and countered with an alternative score of 60-65.

Secondly, if a coach sees that a batsman is not living up to the expectations of his strategic plan, why did he allow the batsmen to limp along to nearly half of the allotted overs (8.5). This is unpardonable considering that we have plenty, plenty, batting resources.

Further, Sammy has always shown his hand in the powerplay. If we lose 2 wickets early, he sends Chase early to snail along in an effort to stem the fall of wickets. This to my mind is ludicrous, counterproductive and testament to a sluggish mindset which sumply does not understand strategy and the maximum use of resources in T20 cricket

Any well drilled T20 team will never allow 20 overs to run out with the loss of only 4 wickets on a good batting pitch with a lightening fast outfield. The situation is further compounded by having an historically weak bowling attack. Imho, 225 on this ground was bare minimum. It proved a lack of preparedness, awareness and execution, all functions of a head coach.This is a serious derelection of duty by the coach.

Finally, a coach must make continuous assessments and must be agile enough to navigate his ship safely. Sammy is niether cerebral nor strategic in his approach to coaching.

He must go and take the President of CWI with him.