DouglasCarr

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Douglas Ward Carr was an English amateur cricketer who played once for the England cricket team in 1909. Carr only began playing first-class cricket in 1909, aged 37, for Kent County Cricket Club. A leg-break bowler who was one of the early proponents of the new googly delivery, he shot to fame in 1909 and enjoyed a short career in the years before the First World War. He was named one of Wisden's five Cricketers of the Year in 1910.