Hope's unbeaten 102 and Paul's five wickets level T20I series for West Indies in Hyderabad

Mixed · 2West Indies beat India by 24 runs in the fourth T20 international in Hyderabad on Wednesday, levelling the five-match series at 2-2. 1 2 Mixed · 2India won the toss and chose to bowl, and West Indies posted 247-3 in 20 overs, built on captain Shai Hope's unbeaten 102. 1 2 Mixed · 2Hope hit nine sixes and four fours. Gulf News says he faced 50 balls, and Al Jazeera says he reached 50 off 28 balls and reached his century with a six off the last ball of the innings. 1 2

Left · 1Hope put on 52 with Jewel Andrew, 58 with Shimron Hetmyer and 91 off 43 balls with Sherfane Rutherford, who made 49 not out off 26 balls. 1 Centre · 1It was Hope's third T20I century, the most by a West Indies batter, ahead of Chris Gayle and Evin Lewis on two each. All three of his T20I hundreds were unbeaten 102s, according to Gulf News. 2 Mixed · 2Other records noted: Hope became only the fifth batter with multiple hundreds in a bilateral T20 series (Al Jazeera). He equalled Gayle's 16 scores of 50 or more for West Indies and passed 2,000 T20I runs, only the fourth West Indian to do so (Gulf News). 1 2

Centre · 1Gulf News says Hope joined Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav and Pakistan's Sahibzada Farhan as captains with three scores of 50 or more in a bilateral T20I series, and was the first to do so in an away series. 2 Left · 1Al Jazeera says this was the second-highest first-innings T20 total against India, behind England's 257-3 in Southampton this year, and that it was Hope's fourth hundred in seven innings across ODIs and T20s on the tour. 1 Left · 1In reply, Sanju Samson made 56 off 23 balls and India reached 80-2 in the powerplay, but wickets fell steadily. Keemo Paul took two in the fifth over, India were 130-5, and the innings ended at 223 in 19.3 overs. 1

Mixed · 2Paul finished with 5-41, his second five-wicket haul in T20s, including three wickets in the 19th over. Gudakesh Motie dismissed Abhishek Sharma and Naman Dhir (a golden duck). Gulf News also credits Shamar Springer with key breakthroughs. 1 2 Left · 1Tilak Varma (43 off 25) and Nitish Reddy (41 off 20) resisted late for India without changing the result. 1 Mixed · 2The deciding fifth T20I is in Bengaluru on Saturday. 1 2