Those of us who castigated him for batting too slowly then, have been forced to shut up about it now. We found a decent enough reason to quibble before. We now have to acknowledge that he is truly amongst the best in the game.

Few current players have combined a high strike rate with a high average as he has. Shubman Gill, with an average of 64.01 and a strike rate of 103.31 is in a league of his own. Hope would rank a little below that, in the conversation with the likes of Joe Root, Daryl Mitchell, Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli. This is highly exalted company but Hope has earned the right to walk in it.

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