Overview
- Hope top-scored with 48 as West Indies were bowled out for 205 on Day 1 of the second Test at the Basin Reserve.
- The innings moved him to 1,749 runs in 47 innings across 41 matches this year, with five centuries and nine fifties.
- The 2025 leaderboard now reads: Hope 1,749; Gill 1,736; Brian Bennett 1,585; Salman Ali Agha 1,569; Joe Root 1,540.
- New Zealand pacer Blair Tickner took four wickets before leaving with a shoulder injury, with local reports suggesting he could miss the rest of the match and possibly the third Test after earlier pace injuries to Matt Henry and Nathan Smith.
- Hope had struck a century in the Christchurch opener that underpinned a draw, and Gill still has upcoming T20Is that could reshape the year-end standings.