In the 17th match played at the Caribbean Premier League (CPL), Trinbago Knight Riders faced Guyana Amazon Warriors, which was won by Nicolas Puran -led Knight Riders by 6 wickets. In this match, fans also saw many fun moments and one of them came when Guyana’s batsman Shai Hope was dismissed in a different way.
Shai Hope became a hit wicket on a wide ball in this match and fans and commentator were taken aback by seeing this view. Hope, playing 39 off 28 balls, tried to put a reverse ramp shot off a ball from the Knight Riders bowler Terence Hinds. The ball was quite out of the off stump and Hope lost his balance in the process of stylish shots and unknowingly collided with the stump of his bat.
As a result of this rare incident, he was dismissed ‘hit wicket’ on a wide ball. Earlier, hardly any such batsman would have lost his wicket on the wide ball and that is why this incident became a matter of discussion among cricket lovers. Despite Hope being unfortunate out, Warriors scored a competitive score of 163/9 in the prescribed 20 overs thanks to the valuable contribution of Romio Shepherd (19), Dwayne Pritorius (21) and Quentin Sampson (25).
