West Indies captain Shai Hope scored a scintillating hundred in the fourth T20I against India at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad on Wednesday, October 14. He scored an unbeaten 102 off 50 balls as the Windies beat the Men in Blue by 24 runs to level the series 2-2. The superb knock featured four fours and as many as nine sixes.

Sent into bat by India in Hyderabad, the West Indies posted 247-3 on the board. Hope added 52 off 26 with Jewel Andrew and 58 off 24 with Shimron Hetmyer. He also featured in a third-wicket stand of 46 in 27 balls with Rovman Powell and added an unbroken 91 in 43 balls with Sherfane Rutherford (49* off 26).

Hope is now joint-third on the list of West Indies batters with most tons in international cricket against India. On that note, let’s look at the top five West Indies batters with most hundreds in international cricket against India.

#3 Gordon Greenidge, Garry Sobers and Shai Hope (8 hundreds)

Gordon Greenidge, Garry Sobers and Hope are joint-third on the list of West Indies batters with most international hundreds against India – eight each.

Greenidge played 47 matches against India and, in 62 innings, scored 2,859 runs at an average of 51.98. The former West Indian opener’s highest score against India was 194, which came off 368 balls in the Kanpur Test in October 1983 and featured 23 fours. He also scored 154 (retired not out) in the St John’s in April 1983 and 141 off 265 balls at Eden Gardens in Kolkata in December 1987.

In ODI cricket, Greenidge scored 117 off 123 in Antigua (March 1989), 115 off 134 in Jamshedpur (December 1983) and 106* off 173 in Birmingham (June 1979).

The late Sobers played 18 matches against India and, in 30 innings, scored 1,920 runs at an average of 83.47, with eight tons (all in Tests) and seven fifties. Sobers’ highest score against India was 198, which came in the Kanpur Test in December 1958. He also scored 178* in Bridgetown (April 1971), 153 in Kingston (March 1962) and 142* at Brabourne (November 1958).

West Indies captain Hope has so far played 45 matches against Team India. In 49 innings, he has smashed 1,961 runs at an average of 47.82, with eight tons and six fifties. Of his hundreds against India, five have come in ODIs, two in T20Is and one in Tests.

Hope‘s highest score against India is 162*, which came off 143 balls during the New Chandigarh ODI earlier this month. The West Indies skipper also slammed 123* off 134 in the Visakhapatnam ODI in October 2018 and 115 off 135 balls in the Port of Spain ODI in July 2022.

Hope’s only Test hundred against India came in Delhi in October 2025. He scored 103 off 214 after the visitors were asked to follow on. In T20Is, both his tons have come in the ongoing series. Before the hundred in Hyderabad, he had scored 102* off 45 balls in Ranchi.

#2 Shivnarine Chanderpaul (9 hundreds)

Indian cricket fans of the 1990s would be well aware of the fact that West Indies legend Shivnarine Chanderpaul was a thorn in India’s flesh on numerous occasions. He played 73 matches against India and, in 87 innings, scored 3,531 runs at an average of 49.04, with nine centuries and 20 half-centuries.

Of Chanderpaul’s nine hundreds against India, seven came in Tests and two in ODIs. His best score against India was 149*, which came off 136 in the Nagpur ODI in January 2007. The southpaw also hit 140 in the Georgetown Test (April 2002), 140 in the Eden Gardens Test (October 2002), 137* in the Bridgetown Test (March 1997) and 136* in the Antigua Test (May 2002).

#1 Vivian Richards (11 hundreds)

The legendary Vivian Richards tops the list of West Indies batters with most hundreds in international cricket against India. In 59 matches (67 innings), he scored 2,924 runs at an average of 49.55, with 11 tons and nine fifties. Of his centuries, eight came in Tests and three in ODIs.

Richards’ highest score against India was 192*, which came in the Delhi Test in December 1974. He also scored 177 in the Port of Spain Test in April 1976 and 142 in the Bridgetown Test in March 1976. In ODIs, the former Windies skipper scored 149 off 99 in Jamshedpur in December 1983, 119 off 146 at The Oval (June 1983) and 110* off 77 in Rajkot (January 1988).