Karl Carver (born 26 March 1996) is an English

first-class cricket First-class cricket, along with List A cricket and Twenty20 cricket, is one of the highest-standard forms of cricket. A first-class match is one of three or more days' scheduled duration between two sides of eleven players each and is officia ...

er. A left-handed batsman and slow left arm orthodox bowler, Carver was previously contracted to

Yorkshire County Cricket Club Yorkshire County Cricket Club is one of 18 first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the historic county of Yorkshire. Yorkshire are the most successful team in English cricketing hi ...

, for whom he played his debut first-class match in 2014. In July 2021, Carver signed with

Warwickshire Warwickshire (; abbreviated Warks) is a county in the West Midlands region of England. The county town is Warwick, and the largest town is Nuneaton. The county is famous for being the birthplace of William Shakespeare at Stratford-upon-Av ...

to play for the side for three weeks during the 2021 Royal London One-Day Cup.

Biography

Carver had been with Yorkshire since 2009, starting at under 14 level. He went on to play for the Yorkshire Academy in the

Yorkshire ECB County Premier League The Yorkshire ECB County Premier League was the top level of competition for recreational club cricket in Yorkshire, England, and between 1999 and 2015 was a designated ECB Premier League. The competing teams in 2015, which was the league's l ...

, and the Yorkshire Second XI, the

England Under-19 cricket team The England Under-19 cricket team have been playing official Under-19 Test matches since 1974. Prior to 1991/92 they were known as England Young Cricketers. Former captains include Mike Atherton, Michael Vaughan, Alastair Cook and Andrew Flint ...

, as well as appearing in his debut first-class match for Yorkshire. This was against

in June 2014. Carver had only played two County Championship matches by the end of 2015. However, that was sufficient to earn him two Championship-winning medals, as he played a bit-part role in both of Yorkshire's triumphs in 2014 and 2015. On 23 July 2017, Carver conceded 6 sixes in a single over delivered to Ross Whiteley, which also contained a wide. He left Yorkshire CCC at the end of the 2019 season.

References

External links

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Yorkpress.co.uk report of Carver's first-class debut
{{DEFAULTSORT:Carver, Karl 1996 births Living people English cricketers Warwickshire cricketers Yorkshire cricketers People from Thirsk Cricketers from North Yorkshire