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Full name John Donald Carr
Born June 15, 1963, St John's Wood, London
Current age 45 years 115 days
Major teams Hertfordshire,Middlesex,Oxford University
Nickname Carsi
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm offbreak
Fielding position First slip
Height
6 ft 0 in
Education Repton School; Oxford University
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
100
50
Ct
St
First-class
212
331
51
10895
261*
38.91
24
51
260
0
List A
195
183
27
4470
106
28.65
2
21
89
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
First-class
212
6687
2939
68
6/61
43.22
2.63
98.3
3
0
List A
195
2366
1644
50
4/21
4/21
32.88
4.16
47.3
1
0
0
Career statistics
First-class span
1983 - 1996
List A span
1983 - 1996
Profile
Born in a house backing onto Lord's, it was almost inevitable that John Carr would play for Middlesex, and given his background - Repton and Oxford, and son of the former TCCB secretary Donald - equally certain that he would end up working in cricket administration. Carr was a capable county batsman with a most extraordinary backlift which involved the bat being held vertically with the face pointing towards the wicketkeeper, all from a square-on stance. He was a Blue between 1983 and 1985 - at the same time he was playing Minor Counties cricket for Hertfordshire - and he was a regular member of the Middlesex side until 1989 when, after a loss of form which resulted in his being dropped for a month, he announced his retirement to go into banking. In 1992 he made a successful comeback, and in the final weeks of the 1994 season he embarked on a spectacular scoring spree with successive scores of 78*, 171*, 136, 106*, 40*, 62* and 261*. This also meant he pipped Brian Lara to top place in the national averages - despite the latter's 501* earlier that year. Carr is now the ECB's Director of Cricket, having retired - this time for good - in 1996 to enter cricket administration.
Martin Williamson
