John Donald Carr (born 15 June 1963) is an English cricketer and cricket administrator.

Life and career

John Carr was born in

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in a house backing onto

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. His father

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was a first-class cricketer who captained

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and

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, before moving into cricket administration. His grandfather, John Carr, played cricket at first-class level. He was educated at

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and

Worcester College, Oxford Worcester College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. The college was founded in 1714 by the benefaction of Sir Thomas Cookes, 2nd Baronet (1648–1701) of Norgrove, Worcestershire, whose coat of arms w ...

. He played first-class cricket for

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and

Middlesex Middlesex (; abbreviation: Middx) is a Historic counties of England, historic county in South East England, southeast England. Its area is almost entirely within the wider urbanised area of London and mostly within the Ceremonial counties of ...

as a right-handed batsman and off-break bowler. Carr scored 9,846 runs for Middlesex between 1983 and 1996, at an average of 39.22, with 20 centuries and a highest score of 261

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. In 1989 when dropped for a month after a loss of form, 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 reached his zenith with successive scores of 78, 171, 136, 106, 40, 62 and 261 to end with 1,543 runs at an average of 90.76, topping

Brian Lara Brian Charles Lara, (born 2 May 1969) is a Trinidadian former international cricketer, widely acknowledged as one of the greatest batsmen of all time. He topped the Test batting rankings on several occasions and holds several cricketing reco ...

's average of 89.82 which included the

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of 501

. Carr succeeded

John Emburey John Ernest Emburey (born 20 August 1952) is a former English first-class cricketer who played for Middlesex, Northamptonshire, Western Province, Berkshire and England. According to cricket writer Colin Bateman, Emburey's participation in two S ...

as vice-captain of Middlesex for his final season in 1996. He joined the

Test and County Cricket Board The Test and County Cricket Board (TCCB) was the governing body for Test and county cricket in Great Britain between 1968 and 1996. The TCCB was established in 1968 to replace the functions of the Board of Control for Test Matches (established ...

, upon his retirement. He is currently the Director of Cricket Operations for the England team for the

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