A poor start to the 2006 season in which he scored only 305 first-class runs at 15.25 in 13 matches led to him being dropped from the Somerset first team for Sam Spurway to take his place.
His two sons, Paul and Roger, also played for Penzance, and grandson Carl is a county cricketer for Somerset.
The lower-order batsman, who was the preferred wicket-keeper over team-mate Carl Gazzard, continued to pull in impressive performances in the lower-order, none more so than when he was halted in the middle of a run towards his first half-century on 44* in a record-setting Somerset innings of 850-7 declared in April 2007.
Carl Sagan | Carl Jung | Carl Orff | Carl Maria von Weber | Carl Lewis | Carl Zeiss AG | Carl Linnaeus | Carl Sandburg | Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden | Carl Levin | Carl Zeiss | Carl Michael Bellman | Carl Friedrich Gauss | Carl Froch | Carl Perkins | Carl von Clausewitz | Carl Reiner | Carl Hancock Rux | Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim | Carl Edwards | Carl Cox | Carl Bildt | Carl Barks | Carl Wilson | Carl Schmitt | Carl Milles | Carl Crawford | Carl Bernstein | Carl Andre | Carl Van Vechten |