Douglas Carr
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| Full name | Douglas Ward Carr | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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17 March 1872 Cranbrook, Kent |
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| Died | 23 March 1950 (aged 78) Salcombe Hill, Sidmouth, Devon |
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| Batting style | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling style | Right arm leg-break and googly | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Only Test (cap 162) | 9 August 1909 v Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1909–1914 | Kent | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Source: CricInfo, 23 April 2016 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Douglas Ward Carr (17 March 1872 – 23 March 1950) was an English amateur cricketer who played once for the England cricket team in 1909. Carr only began playing first-class cricket in 1909 aged 37 for Kent County Cricket Club. A leg-break bowler who was one of the early proponents of the new googly delivery, he shot to fame in 1909 and enjoyed a short career in the years before the First World War. He was named one of Wisden's five Cricketers of the Year in 1910.
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 cricket appearances for the University.
After leaving Oxford, he spent some years playing club cricket in the Maidstone area. 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.
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