Keemo has very good batting ability –Hope
ball one so he played a very crucial hand here to go over the line. It [the wicket] was a bit slow. When the bowlers took some pace off, it was a lot more difficult to get bat on ball especially against Fizz [Mustafizur Rahman]. His off cutters were quite difficult to get away in the crucial stage. The wicket wasn’t the best for strokeplay but it was much better than the last game.”
This is the first time Hope has scored a century that resulted in a win for the Caribbean side with the previous two resulting in ties which the Bajan-born noted “… must be above the other two, because we tied the last two games. I am just pleased to get over the line. It is great to score a hundred but there’s more joy if you can get over the line as a team.” Hope was also impressed with Oshane Thomas, saying “He is very quick. He needs to keep putting in the work. We know that we can depend on him to take a few wickets at the top and in the middle overs. He will improve if he keeps doing it”.
On the back of their lone tour victory so far, Hope believes his team can win the series saying “definitely, we have come here to win the games, we came here to fight and make sure we finish the series 2-1.”
Hope added, “the guys have been working really hard so very pleased to get this win. We should celebrate a bit more because we didn’t have much to celebrate in recent times,” but looking at the decider, the opener stated “we had to adapt as fast as possible.