Full Name

John Donald Carr

Born

June 15, 1963, St John's Wood, London

Age

60y 278d

Nicknames

Carsi

Batting Style

Right hand Bat

Bowling Style

Right arm Offbreak

Fielding Position

First Slip

Height

6ft

Education

Repton School; Oxford University

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

John Carr Career Stats

Batting & Fielding

FormatMatInnsNORunsHSAve100s50sCtSt
FC2123315110895261*38.9124512600
List A19518327447010628.65221890

Bowling

FormatMatBallsRunsWktsBBIBBMAveEconSR4w5w10w
FC21266872939686/61-43.222.6398.3-30
List A19523661644504/214/2132.884.1647.3100

Debut/Last Matches of John Carr

FC Matches

Span
1983 - 1996

List A Matches

Span
1983 - 1996

Recent Matches of John Carr

Photos of John Carr

John Carr visits the Sardar Patel Stadium in Ahmedabad
Haidee Tiffen receives the series trophy from John Carr
John Carr arrives
John Carr
John Carr on his way to a career-best 261