India, Oct. 15 -- Shai Hope is making India national cricket team bowlers look for answers, and the West Indies national cricket team captain's extraordinary run on this white-ball tour has opened another question: what could he be worth at the IPL auction? After piling up centuries in both ODIs and T20Is, Hope has become the central figure in a fiercely contested series. Hope, who does not currently have an IPL contract, has given potential bidders plenty to think about ahead of the December auction.

There was a time when the sight of Matthew Hayden or Sanath Jayasuriya walking out to bat would have unsettled Indian bowlers before a ball was delivered. Hope is neither of those destructive openers, but he has brought a different kind of ...