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2 unusual facts about Arthur Carr


Arthur Carr

Arthur Wesley Carr (born 1941), Anglican divine, Dean of Westminster, 1997–2006

Arthur Comyns Carr (1882–1965), British Liberal politician and lawyer


Leg theory

In 1930, England captain Douglas Jardine, together with Nottinghamshire's captain Arthur Carr and his bowlers Harold Larwood and Bill Voce, developed a variant of leg theory in which the bowlers bowled fast, short-pitched balls that would rise into the batsman's body, together with a heavily stacked ring of close fielders on the leg side.


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