Donald Carr captained Derbyshire between 1955 and 1962 and scored over 10,000 runs for the county.
15 Facts About Donald Carr
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Donald Carr was the son of John Donald Carr, an officer of the Royal Berkshire Regiment, who was serving with the British Army of the Rhine in Germany.
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Donald Carr went to Forres Boarding School in Swanage and then to Repton School, where his father had taken the post of bursar.
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Donald Carr joined the Army on 1 January 1945, and was sent to Northern Ireland, where he had little scope to play serious cricket.
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Donald Carr went to the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and gained a Commission in the Royal Berkshire Regiment in February 1946.
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Donald Carr made his debut against Kent, when he scored a duck in his only innings in a drawn match, but took two wickets.
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Donald Carr did not play first-class cricket in 1947, as he was serving in Burma, but left the army in April 1948 and went to Worcester College, Oxford.
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Donald Carr played in the County Championship for Derbyshire in the 1948 season and, in 1949, made the Oxford University team.
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Donald Carr finished off the season playing for Derbyshire in the 1949 season when he scored 1,210 runs and hit three centuries, with his career top score 170 for Oxford University against Leicestershire.
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Donald Carr had been in the same Oxford side in 1949 as his opposing captain, Abdul Hafeez Kardar.
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Donald Carr scored 2,092 runs at an average of more than 44 runs an innings in the 1959 season, and was named Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1960.
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Donald Carr played 745 innings on 446 first-class matches, with an average of 28.61 and a top score of 170.
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Donald Carr took 328 first-class wickets at an average of 34.74, and a best performance of 7 for 53.
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Donald Carr represented Oxford University at football, and played in the FA Amateur Cup final twice for the winning Pegasus side in 1951 and 1953.
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Donald Carr managed several MCC tours in the 1960s and 1970s.