Jonathan Carter (cricketer)
Jonathan Lyndon Carter is a cricketer who plays for Barbados. He is a big-hitting left-handed batsman who also bowls right-arm medium pace.
He first played for Barbados in 2007 in a List A match against West Indies Under-19s. He has represented West Indies A. He averages around 30 in first-class cricket. He made his One Day International debut for the West Indies against South Africa on 16 January 2015.Career
Carter has appeared for West Indies A, Barbados and Barbados Tridents in the Limocol Caribbean Premier League. In September 2013 he scored a century for West Indies A against India A. After a long wait, Carter finally got his first century in first-class cricket against Jamaica. In 2014 he scored his second List A hundred, this time for Barbados in the Regional Super 50, scoring 109. He later scored his second first-class ton against Jamaica.
He was chosen in the West Indies squad for the 2015 World Cup.
He also jointly holds the record for taking the most catches by a substitute fielder in a T20I innings. along with Jeetan Patel, Eoin Morgan, Hashim Amla, Johnson Charles and Chamu Chibhabha.
In the 2017 CPL Draft, he was selected by the St Kitts & Nevis Patriots.
In March 2017, he was named in the West Indies squad for the Twenty20 International series against Pakistan, but did not play.
He was the leading run-scorer in the 2018–19 Regional Super50 tournament, with 351 runs in eight matches.
In May 2019, Cricket West Indies named him as one of ten reserve players in the West Indies' squad for the 2019 Cricket World Cup. In October 2019, he was named as the captain of Barbados for the 2019–20 Regional Super50 tournament. In July 2020, he was named in the Barbados Tridents squad for the 2020 Caribbean Premier League.
