By Admin 
SA T20: The 2025-26 season of South Africa’s T20 league SA20 saw an innings which changed the history of the tournament. Experienced West Indies batsman Shay Hope, while playing for Pretoria Capitals, played such an explosive inning against Durban Super Giants, which surprised the fans as well as the cricket experts.
Shay Hope’s storm in SA T20
In this match played at Kingsmead Stadium in Durban, Shay Hope came to open and remained at the crease till the end. He scored unbeaten 118 runs in 69 balls and took his team to a strong score of 201 runs for 4 wickets in 20 overs. This is the biggest individual innings so far in the history of SA20. During this, She Hope hit fours and sixes. 9 fours and 9 sixes came from his bat. That means 90 runs came only from boundaries, which clearly shows the strength of his batting.
old record broken
Earlier, the feat of playing the biggest innings in SA20 was done by Kyle Verreynne. He had scored 116 runs last season. However, Shay Hope made this record in her name by scoring two more runs. The special thing was that this match was the 200th match of his T20 career and he made this memorable day even more special with a century. So far, Shay Hope has scored more than 5,350 runs in 195 innings in T20 cricket. Now 4 centuries and 27 half-centuries have been registered in his name.
Strong comeback after bad start
This innings is also considered special because Shay Hope’s bat had remained silent before this in the current season. In the first 5 matches, only 88 runs came from his bat. He could not even score a half-century yet. In such a situation, questions were being raised on him, but in this match he gave a befitting reply to the critics.
Didn’t get a chance in IPL, SA dominates in T20
Interestingly, Shay Hope did not find any buyer in the IPL 2025 auction. While on one hand the IPL franchises did not show confidence in him, on the other hand he showed his class in SA20. His innings was also very important for Pretoria Capitals, because the team had to struggle in the initial matches.