Donald Carr
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Test debut | 2 November 1951 v India | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last Test | 10 February 1952 v India | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: CricInfo, 13 December 2018 |
Donald Bryce Carr
His cricket administration roles included twelve years as assistant secretary to the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), taking over as secretary of the fledgling Test and County Cricket Board in 1976. In his ten years in that role, cricket writer, Colin Bateman noted that Carr "mixed diplomacy with a sense of justice as first the Packer Affair, and then the first rebel tour to South Africa, threatened to split the world game".[1]
Life and career
Carr was the son of John Carr, an officer of the Royal Berkshire Regiment, who was serving with the British Army of the Rhine in Germany.[2] He went to Forres Boarding School in Swanage (the headmaster, R. M. Chadwick, a former opening bat for Dorset Minor Counties 1st XI, coached him) and then to Repton School, where his father had taken the post of bursar. Already an above average boy cricketer, he developed into one of the best young all-rounders under the coaching of Lionel Blaxland and Garnet Lee. In 1944 his last year at Repton, he captained The Rest against the Lord's Schools and the Public Schools' side against a Lord's XI.[3]
Carr joined the Army on 1 January 1945, and was sent to Northern Ireland, where he had little scope to play serious cricket. In the summer he went to Wrotham for a training course and was chosen, on the withdrawal of George Pope, for England in the third Victory Test match against the Australian Services XI at Lord's.[1] He went to the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and gained a Commission in the Royal Berkshire Regiment in February 1946. In the 1946 season he first played for Derbyshire in the County Championship. He made his debut against Kent, when he scored a duck in his only innings in a drawn match, but took two wickets. He also played for Combined Services.[3]
Carr did not play
After university, Carr went to work for a Midlands brewery, but before starting he was given permission to tour as vice-captain to
He captained an
Carr scored 2,092 runs at an average of more than 44 runs an innings in the
Carr played 745 innings on 446 first-class matches, with an average of 28.61 and a top score of 170. He took 328 first-class wickets at an average of 34.74, and a best performance of 7 for 53.[7]
Carr represented Oxford University at football, and played in the FA Amateur Cup final twice for the winning Pegasus side in 1951 and 1953.[3]
Carr later became an ICC match referee. After his retirement, he became assistant secretary of the MCC from 1963 to 1976, and then secretary to the Cricket Council and the Test and County Cricket Board – both forerunners of the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) – for ten years after that. He also managed several MCC tours in the 1960s and 1970s.[1]
Carr's son John played for Middlesex.[1]
See also
References
- ^ ISBN 1-869833-21-X.
- ^ Mason, Peter (13 June 2016). "Donald Carr obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 13 June 2016.
- ^ a b c d e Wisden Cricketer of the Year 1960 – Donald Carr
- ^ Daily Telegraph obituary Retrieved 23 June 2016
- ^ "Derbyshire County Cricket Club". heritage.derbyshireccc.com. Retrieved 15 June 2024.
- ^ "Wisden's Five Cricketers of the Year". ESPNcricinfo. 21 April 2022. Retrieved 15 June 2024.
- ^ Donald Carr at Cricket Archive