Phillip Carrick (16 July 1952 – 11 January 2000) was an English

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er, who played for

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between 1970 and 1993. Carrick was born in

Armley Armley is a district in the west of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It starts less than from Leeds city centre. Like much of Leeds, Armley grew in the Industrial Revolution and had several mills, one of which houses now the Leeds Industrial ...

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, Yorkshire, England, educated at Park Lane College of Further Education, and began his first-class career in 1970. The left-arm spinner, nicknamed "Fergie", took more than 1,000 wickets over his twenty three-year career, and fell just six runs short of hitting 10,000 first-class runs for Yorkshire. His bowling partnership with

Geoff Cope Geoffrey Alan Cope (born 23 February 1947) played first-class cricket for Yorkshire from 1966 to 1980, and appeared in three Test matches for England. Life and career Born on 23 February 1947, Burmantofts, Leeds, Yorkshire as the son of a Fr ...

was a successful one for the county. He captained Yorkshire to victory over

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in the 1987

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, having had his

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in 1985. As well as Yorkshire he spent two seasons playing in South Africa with Eastern Province and

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. After retiring from first-class cricket in 1993, he continued to play local league cricket, captaining Pudsey Congs to the

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title and he also had success as an

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for the ECB. He died of

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aged 47 in January 2000, survived by his wife and two daughters. His funeral was held in

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. Among those attending were his cricketing colleagues

Brian Close Dennis Brian Close, (24 February 1931 – 13 September 2015) was an English first-class cricketer. He was picked to play against New Zealand in July 1949, when he was 18 years old. Close went on to play 22 Test matches for England, ...

Ray Illingworth Raymond Illingworth CBE (8 June 1932 – 25 December 2021) was an English cricketer, cricket commentator and administrator. , he was one of only nine players to have taken 2,000 wickets and made 20,000 runs in first-class cricket.Arnold, Peter ...

Martyn Moxon Martyn Douglas Moxon (born 4 May 1960) is a former English cricketer, who played in ten Test matches and eight One Day Internationals for England and for Yorkshire County Cricket Club between 1980 and 1997. In May 2007, Moxon was confirmed as Di ...

Dickie Bird Harold Dennis "Dickie" Bird, (born 19 April 1933), is an English retired international cricket umpire. During his long umpiring career, he became a much-loved figure among players and viewing public, due to his excellence as an umpire, but al ...

Graham Gooch Graham Alan Gooch, (born 23 July 1953) is a former English first-class cricketer who captained Essex and England. He was one of the most successful international batsmen of his generation, and through a career spanning from 1973 until 2000, h ...

Mike Gatting Michael William Gatting (born 6 June 1957) is an English former cricketer, who played first-class cricket for Middlesex (1975–1998; captain 1983–1997) and for England from 1977 to 1995, captaining the national side in twenty-three Test mat ...

and

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 So ...

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Carrick, Phil 1952 births 2000 deaths Yorkshire cricket captains Yorkshire cricketers Eastern Province cricketers Northerns cricketers People from Armley Cricketers from Leeds English cricketers Deaths from leukemia Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers Cheshire cricketers D. H. Robins' XI cricketers Young England cricketers Deaths from cancer in England