DUBLIN – Kea­cy Car­ty joined an elite list of crick­eters to score con­sec­u­tive cen­turies in One Day In­ter­na­tion­als (ODIs) which pro­pelled West In­dies to a dom­i­nant 197-run win over Ire­land via the Duck­worth/Lewis/Stern method in the third and fi­nal match at Clon­tarf in Ire­land on Sun­day.

Fresh from his knock of 102 in the rained-out sec­ond ODI on Fri­day, the 28-year-old struck a mag­nif­i­cent 170 as West In­dies post­ed a stag­ger­ing 385 for sev­en off their 50 overs, their sec­ond-high­est to­tal ever in the for­mat, just be­hind the 389 they scored against Eng­land in 2019.

Bowl­ing in his first match of the se­ries, fast bowler Jay­den Seales then ran through Ire­land’s top or­der to help lim­it them to 165 off 29.5 overs, af­ter their tar­get was re­duced to 363 in 46 overs due to rain stop­pages.

The re­sult helped the West In­dies tie the three-match se­ries 1-1 af­ter Ire­land won the open­ing match by 124 runs.

But the day be­longed to Car­ty, who joined Desmond Haynes, Gor­don Greenidge, Phil Sim­mons, Bri­an Lara, Wavell Hinds, Shiv­nar­ine Chan­der­paul, John­son Charles and Shai Hope as the on­ly West In­di­ans to score back-to-back ODI cen­turies.

He al­so be­came the 14th West In­di­an to record a score of 150 or more in an ODI.

In a sto­ry­line that fol­lowed the same script as the pre­ced­ing match, West In­dies lost open­ers Bran­don King and Evin Lewis cheap­ly to be 31 for two, on­ly for Car­ty and skip­per Hope to re­vive the in­nings.

The two added 137 runs for the third wick­et, which helped to trans­form the match and wres­tle the ini­tia­tive away from the home side.

Dur­ing his knock, Hope be­came the third fastest West In­di­an to score 5500 ODI runs, and he al­so brought up his 27th ODI half-cen­tu­ry when he drove off-spin­ner Andy McBrine down to long on for a sin­gle off the 53rd ball he faced.

Car­ty, who was named Play­er-of-the-Match and Play­er-of-the-Se­ries, fol­lowed soon af­ter, hit­ting left-arm spin­ner George Dock­rell to the fine leg bound­ary to move to 53 off 66 balls.

Look­ing to up the ante, Hope per­ished for a run-a-ball 75, caught on the bound­ary in a failed at­tempt to hit McBrine out of the ground.

He hit nine fours and two six­es.

His dis­missal left the score 168 for three in the 30th over, but Ire­land got no re­prieve as Car­ty and new bats­man Amir Jan­goo added 78 runs in 11 overs.

There were two stop­pages for rain there­after, but Car­ty was not to be de­nied, and he moved in­to the 90s with a ner­vous top-edged pull off Bar­ry Mc­Carthy that flew over the keep­er’s head for six.

He then reached his cen­tu­ry by dri­ving spin­ner Har­ry Tec­tor for four through cov­er and fol­lowed it up by edg­ing him to the third-man bound­ary three balls lat­er.

Jan­goo lost his wick­et af­ter scor­ing 22 as he tried to hit Dock­rell over the ropes, to leave the score 246 for four in the 41st over.

Car­ty smashed Dock­rell for two six­es and four off con­sec­u­tive overs and moved to 150 off 134 balls with a sin­gle off Mc­Carthy soon af­ter.

All the while, Justin Greaves was un­leash­ing his fury at the oth­er end, find­ing the bound­ary with ease.

Car­ty, who was bowled off a no-ball when he was 150, was even­tu­al­ly bowled by a ball that kept low from Mc­Carthy af­ter fac­ing 142 balls and hit­ting 15 fours and eight six­es.

His in­nings helped West In­dies belt 144 runs from the last 10 overs, with Greaves lash­ing 50 off 23 balls.

Faced with a mon­u­men­tal task, Ire­land was nev­er in the hunt af­ter Seales grabbed the wick­ets of Andy Bal­birnie, cap­tain Paul Stir­ling and Har­ry Tec­tor, to leave them 40 for three in the eighth over.

Cade Carmichael top­scored with 48, but the home side nev­er threat­ened their tar­get.

To make mat­ters worse, they were with­out two bat­ters in Jor­dan Neill and Josh Lit­tle, who were in­jured while field­ing.

Seales end­ed with fig­ures of 3-26 from 5.5 overs.

Sum­marised scores

WEST IN­DIES 385-7 in 50 overs (Kea­cy Car­ty 170, Shai Hope 75, Justin Greaves 50, Amir Jan­goo 22, Evin Lewis 14, Matthew Forde 12; Bar­ry Mc­Carthy 3-100, Liam Mc­Carthy 2-93).

IRE­LAND 165 in 29.5 overs (Cade Carmichael 48, Lor­can Tuck­er 29, Andy McBrine 28, Paul Stir­ling 26, George Dock­rell 23; Jay­den Seales 3-26).

West In­dies won by 197 runs via the Duck­worth/Lewis/Stern method.

CMC