Kyle Antonio Hope (born 20 November 1988) is a Barbadian cricketer who has played for both

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and

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in West Indian domestic cricket, as well as the

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. He is a right-handed middle-order batsman.

Career

Hope was born in Saint Michael Parish, and attended Queen's College and The Lodge School. He made his first-class debut for Barbados during the

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, and made semi-regular appearances over the following three seasons.First-class matches played by Kyle Hope
– CricketArchive. Retrieved 28 December 2015. After a period of poor form, Hope was left without a team for the 2013–14 season, although the following year he appeared for the Combined Campuses in the 2014–15 Regional Super50. He had earlier played for the team in the 2011 and 2012 Caribbean Twenty20 tournaments. For the 2015–16 season, Hope switched to Trinidad and Tobago, returning to first-class cricket for the first time since February 2013. His younger brother,

Shai Hope Shai Diego Hope (born 10 November 1993) is a Barbadian cricketer, who plays international cricket for the West Indies cricket team. He is regarded as one of the best ODI batsmen in the contemporary world. At the age of 21, he was called into the ...

, is also a professional cricketer, and has played international cricket for the

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. In June 2017, he was added to the West Indies One Day International (ODI) squad, ahead of the third match against India. He made his ODI debut for the West Indies against India on 30 June 2017. The following month, he was named in the West Indies squad for the

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series against England. He made his Test debut in the first match of the series on 17 August 2017. In November 2019, he was named in Trinidad and Tobago's squad for the 2019–20 Regional Super50 tournament. In June 2020, he was selected by

, in the players' draft hosted by

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ahead of the 2020–21 domestic season.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hope, Kyle 1988 births Living people West Indies Test cricketers West Indies One Day International cricketers Barbadian cricketers Barbados cricketers Combined Campuses and Colleges cricketers People from Saint Michael, Barbados Barbados Royals cricketers Trinidad and Tobago cricketers