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Arthur Carr
Mon, June 11 2018
Nottinghamshire take field in plain clothes against Hampshire
Hampshire needed a solitary run to win, so the Nottinghamshire fielders didn’t even bother to change.
Fri, November 17 2017
Percy Fender meticulously plans out an Arthur Carr dismissal
Percy Fender, was, by common consensus, “the best captain never chosen to lead England”.
Thu, October 03 2013
Ashes 1926: Charlie Macartney scores century before lunch, after England captain Arthur Carr drops him off the fourth ball
July 24, 1926. After England captain Arthur Carr put Australia in to bat at Headingley, Maurice Tate dismissed Warren Bardsley with the very first ball; and then transpired a phase of play that remained a lifelong nightmare for the captain. Arunabha Sengupta writes about the day when Macartney was dropped by Carr off the fourth ball he faced and raced to a hundred before lunch.