West Indies skipper Shai Hope on Friday scored a 57-ball 102 against Australia in the third T20I of the five-match series, helping his team post 214/4 batting first, although it was trumped by a brilliant performance from Tim David, who also scored 102, but off 37 balls, to take his team to a six-wicket win. Hope hit an unbeaten century for the Windies, his first T20I hundred in 46 T20Is. Ge struck for 102 runs not out off 57 deliveries with eight boundaries and six sixes. Hope and Brandon King opened with a 125 stand for the hosts before the latter exited on the fourth delivery of the 12th over after scoring 62. Meanwhile, Hope became the first wicketkeeper-captain to score a hundred in T20Is, going past Scott Edwards’ highest score of 99 by a wicketkeeper-skipper, against Oman last year. With his brilliant innings, Hope joined an elite group of cricketers who have scored hundreds in all three formats of international cricket. With this feat, Hope matched Chris Gayle, who was the only other Caribbean cricketer on this list till the former joined in. Hope has hammered 17 centuries in ODIs and two in Tests as well. He became the fifth Windies batter with a T20I century, joining Gayle, Evin Lewis, Johnson Charles and Rovman Powell. Playing his 46th T20I, Hope has raced to 1,161 runs at an average of 30.55. The tally now includes seven half-centuries besides a hundred. 182 of his T20I runs have come against the Australians at an average of 45.5. This was Hope’s second 50-plus score of the series. On the first delivery of the penultimate over, he went to deep point for one to reach his first T20I hundred, making 100 runs off 55 deliveries to join Gayle as the only Windies men with hundreds in all formats. But David bashed a 37-ball hundred and Australia beat the Windies by six wickets on Friday to clinch an overall win against the hosts. David smashed 11 sixes and six boundaries to finish on 102 runs off 37 balls as the Australians chased down 215 to win with 23 deliveries to spare. Australia took an unbeatable 3-0 lead in the five-match series, which continues on Saturday, July 26, with another night matchup at Warner Park.