Phil Carrick
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| Batting style | Right-handed batsman | |
| Bowling type | Slow left-arm orthodox | |
| First-class | List A | |
| Matches | 444 | 311 |
| Runs scored | 10300 | 2188 |
| Batting average | 22.00 | 14.02 |
| 100s/50s | 3/41 | 0/2 |
| Top score | 131* | 54 |
| Balls bowled | 78325 | 11853 |
| Wickets | 1081 | 249 |
| Bowling average | 29.82 | 30.67 |
| 5 wickets in innings | 47 | 2 |
| 10 wickets in match | 5 | N/A |
| Best bowling | 8/33 | 5/22 |
| Catches/stumpings | 197/- | 70/- |
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Debut: 22 August 1970 |
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Phil Carrick (July 16, 1952 - January 11, 2000), was a cricketer for Yorkshire County Cricket Club.
Carrick was born in Armley, Leeds, and began his first-class career in 1970. The left-arm spinner, nicknamed "Fergie", took more than 1,000 wickets over his 23 year career and fell just six runs short of hitting 10,000 first class runs for Yorkshire. His bowling partnership with Geoff Cope was a very successful one for the county. He captained Yorkshire to victory over Northamptonshire in the 1987 Benson and Hedges Cup, having had his benefit year in 1985. As well as Yorkshire he spent two seasons playing in South Africa with Eastern Province and Northern Transvaal. After retiring from first-class cricket in 1993 he continued to play local league cricket, captaining Pudsey Congs to the Bradford League title but also had success as an umpire for the ECB.
He died of leukaemia aged 47 in 2000 on January 11th leaving behind his wife and two daughters. His funeral was held in Bradford Cathedral, where there was standing room only. Among those attending were his cricketing colleagues Brian Close, Ray Illingworth, Martyn Moxon, Dickie Bird, Graham Gooch, Mike Gatting and John Emburey.
