Name:

Carr, Arthur W

Date of Birth:

21 May 1893

Gender:

Men

Place of Birth:

Mickleham, Surrey, England

Date Died:

07 Feb 1963

Career:

Test: 1922 - 1929

Teams:

Nottinghamshire (Regional)
England (Country)

1926: Macartney has England in pain after Carr gets it wrong: 3rd Test (Leeds)

Carr: Controversial, astute skipper who developed Bodyline

Arthur Carr was born at Mickleham, in Surrey, on the 21st of May, 1894. He went to school at Sherborne and was briefly at Oxford. 

While still at Sherborne he made a few appearances for Notts in 1913. He was made captain of Notts in 1919. A naturally attacking batsman, Carr improved his defence as his career progressed, and oversaw the regeneration of an ageing Nottinghamshire team.

Carr played his first Test match under the captaincy of Frank Mann in South Africa in 1922-23. He was appointed to lead England in the 1926 Ashes series, just edging out Percy Fender from the captaincy.  Unfortunately, Carr went down with tonsillitis and was replaced by Percy Chapman midway in the series.

During the sixteen years of his captaincy, Notts won the Championship for only the second time in 1929. 

Carr was instrumental in helping Douglas Jardine develop the controversial Bodyline tactics to curb Bradman's run scoring during the 1932/33 series.  

Carr played 11 Test matches, scoring 237 runs at an average of 19.75. His first-class career spanned 468 matches. He scored 21,051 runs at an average of 31.56 including 45 hundreds.

Carr collapsed and died after shovelling snow at his home at West Witton, Yorkshire, on February 7, 1936. He was aged 69.