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Wisden Cricketer's Almanack 1993, 130th edition
Carr was the first of Wisden's guest reviewers of books.
Here's an extract:
I was a schoolboy when Nottinghamshire played Yorkshire at Headingley in 1932. My brother-in-law prophesised rain so we caught an early train back to Sherburn-in-Elmet. It didn't rain and Hedley Verity took ten wickets for ten runs; this blighted my youth.
Hedley Verity took 10 wickets for 10 runs on 12th July 1932 in the third and final day of the match at Headingley between Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire. Carr was 20 years old and had spent the previous school year working as a teaching assistant before going to Dudley Training College in September 1932.
Widen Cricketer's Almanck, 1993
Publisher: John Wisden
Year: 1993
ISBN: 0-947766-21-9
Pages: pp 1295-1306
Editor: Matthew Engel (link to obituary of Carr written by Engel)
Content: Carr reviewed:
- Mad Jack by Don Wilson;
- Gower - the Autobiography by David Gower and Martin Johnson;
- Graham Gooch by Ivo Tennant;
- England Expects by Mark Peel;
- Len Hutton Remembered;
- The Wayward Genius by Greg Growden;
- Wasim and Waqar by John Crace;
- The Long Run by Alfred Gover;
- The Army's Grace by Jeremy Lonsdale;
- The Guiness Book of Test Captains by David Lemmon;
- Famous Cricketers of Middlesex by Dean Hayes;
- The Cricket Masters by Derek L. Johnson;
- A Tale of Two Counties by Nico Craven;
- Heads or Tails? Lancashire Captains by Roy Cavanagh;
- Six More Days of Grace by G. Derek West;
- Captaincy by Graham Gooch;
- The Complete Book of Modern Fielding Practices by Chris Stone;
- The Bowler's Art by Brian Wilkins;
- What is a Googly? by Robert Eastaway;
- The Zen of Cricket by Tony Francis;
- Out of Bounds by Mike Seabrook;
- The Twelfth Man by John Parker;
- First Class Cricket: A Complete Record 1938;
- The History of Leicestershire C.C.C. by Denis Lambert;
- The History of Nottinghamshire C.C.C. by Peter Wynne-Thomas;
- Alletson's Innnings by John Arlott;
- From Minor to Major by Simon Hughes;
- Durham: Birth of a First-Class County;
- The Illustrated History of County Cricket by Eric Midwinter;
- Cricket at Scarborough by Ian Hall.
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