Carty becomes joint-fifth fastest West Indian to 1000 ODI runs

Tuesday’s third and final One-Day International between the West Indies and Bangladesh was a historic one for a few reasons.

The first was that the hosts secured a 3-0 series win and their first ODI series win over Bangladesh since 2014.

The second was that Amir Jangoo became the second West Indian to score a hundred on ODI debut with his 104* and the third, and focus of this article, is that Keacy Carty became the joint fifth-fastest West Indian to reach 1000 runs in ODIs.

The 27-year-old reached the milestone during his score of 95 off 88 balls including 10 fours and two sixes at Warner Park in St. Kitts.

Carty’s first 1000 runs in the format have come in just 28 innings, the same amount as Shimron Hetmyer who brought up his thousandth run against Bangladesh at the 2019 World Cup in England.

The only West Indians to reach the mark faster are Nicholas Pooran (27 innings), Ramnaresh Sarwan (27 innings), Gordon Greenidge (23 innings) and Sir Viv Richards (21 innings).

The St. Maarten-born U-19 World Cup winner now has exactly 1000 runs in his 31 ODIs at an average of 43.47 with five fifties and one hundred, his match-winning 128* against England in Barbados last month.

He has also been selected to the West Indies T20I squad for the first time for the upcoming Bangladesh series and will be looking to feature when it gets underway on Sunday at Arnos Vale. Sportsmax