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England
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Douglas Carr
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Right-handed batsman (RHB)
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Right-arm leg-break and googly (LBG)
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1
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0
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000
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0/0
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0
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balls
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414
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7
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4028
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0
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5-146
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0/0
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58
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447
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893
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0/0
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48
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5,585
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334
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1672
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31
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8
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8-36
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19/0
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9 August
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1909
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11 August
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1909
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(born
17 March 1872 in
Cranbrook, Kent , died
23 March 1950 in
Sidmouth ,
Devon ) was an
English Amateur Cricketer .
Carr went to
Brasenose College at
Oxford University and while there played both
Football and
Cricket . He injured his knee playing football, and as a result did not make any
First-class appearances for the university's cricket team.
After leaving Oxford, he spent some years playing
Club Cricket in the
Maidstone area, and it was during this period, in
1908 , that he learnt to bowl the then fairly new
Googly . The following May he made his first-class debut for
Kent against his old university, and took seven wickets in the match, including 5-65 in the first innings. His next chances came in July, in two
Gentlemen V Players games, and again he met with success, taking a total of fifteen wickets in the four innings.
Carr quickly established himself as a regular in the Kent side, and by the second week of August had claimed no less than 42 wickets in his first six first-class games. There was now a clamour for his inclusion in the
England team, all the more so as England were 2-1 down in the
Ashes series at the time. The selectors agreed, and although Carr was twelfth man for the drawn game at
Old Trafford , he was picked for the final match of the series at
The Oval , becoming the first man ever to play
Test Cricket in his first year in the first-class game. Carr took 7-282 in the match, including 5-146 in the first innings, although his efforts could not force an English victory and the resulting draw meant that the Australians carried off the Ashes.
1909 was also Carr's best in first-class cricket as a whole, as he took 95 wickets including a fine
Bowling Analysis of 28.1-10-36-8 against
Somerset ; he was to equal that 8-36 return three years later against
Gloucestershire . Named a
Wisden Cricketer Of The Year , in
1910 he helped Kent to the
County Championship title, and in
1912 he
Averaged just 12.01 in taking 61 first-class wickets.
A poor batsman, Carr never made a half-century, and in his later years his batting declined even further; in his last significant season (
1913 ) he scored only 95 runs in 17 innings. In
1914 he played only one match, in late July against
Surrey . He toiled away for 0-134 from his 28 overs, and the start of the
Great War a few weeks later brought an end to his cricketing career. Carr died at the age of 78 in
Salcombe Hill ,
Sidmouth ,
Devon .
