Donald Carr

English cricketer (1926–2016)

Donald Bryce Carr OBE (28 December 1926 –11 June 2016)[1] was an English cricketer. He played for Derbyshire from 1946 to 1967, for Oxford University from 1948 to 1951, and twice for England in 1951/52. He captained Derbyshire between 1955 and 1962, and scored over 10,000 runs for the county.

Carr later became an ICC match referee. After his retirement, he became assistant secretary of the MCC from 1963 to 1976, and then secretary to the Cricket Council and the Test and County Cricket Board – both forerunners of the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) – for ten years after that. He also managed several MCC tours in the 1960s and 1970s.[1]

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  1. 1.0 1.1 Bateman, Colin (1993). If The Cap Fits. Tony Williams Publications. p. 37. ISBN 1-869833-21-X.