Arthur Carr (cricketer)
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Full name | Arthur William Carr | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Mickleham, Surrey, England | 21 May 1893|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 7 February 1963 West Witton, Yorkshire, England | (aged 69)|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right arm medium | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Test debut | 23 December 1922 v South Africa | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last Test | 17 August 1929 v South Africa | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 5 August 2020 |
Arthur William Carr (21 May 1893 – 7 February 1963)
Cricket career
A promising young
Carr was selected for England's tour of
For the
In 1930 and the following years, Carr was instrumental in developing the Bodyline bowling tactic together with future England captain Douglas Jardine and the two Nottinghamshire fast bowlers Harold Larwood and Bill Voce.[citation needed] Carr used this tactic of instructing his bowlers to aim at the bodies of batsmen and placing a close set field on the leg side to take catches fended away from the body with the bat and perfected it as he led Nottinghamshire to success in the county competition.[citation needed] Jardine then used Larwood and Voce in similar fashion on the 1932–33 English tour of Australia, the tactic resulting in injuries to Australian batsmen and raising the ire of the Australian public.
After this tour and the subsequent fallout, Carr was subjected to Bodyline bowling by other English county teams, and was severely shaken by several balls that nearly hit him on the head.[citation needed] He denounced the tactic he had helped develop as unfair.[citation needed] Dissension within the Nottinghamshire club over his role in Bodyline led him being sacked as captain in 1934, and he never played first-class cricket again.[citation needed]
Carr played 11 Test matches, scoring 237 runs at an average of 19.75. His first-class career spanned 468 matches, and in this he made 21,051 runs at an average of 31.56 including 45 hundreds. He also bowled medium pace occasionally at first-class level, taking 31 wickets at an average of 37.09.
References
- ^ "Arthur Carr". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 24 January 2019.
Further reading
- Wynne-Thomas, Peter (2017). Arthur Carr: The Rise and Fall of Nottinghamshire's Bodyline Captain. Sheffield: Chequered Flag Publishing. ISBN 978-0-9932152-9-2.