Hanson "Sammy" Carter (15 March 1878 – 8 June 1948) was a

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er who played for

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and

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Career

Carter attended

Sydney Boys High School Sydney Boys High School ('SBHS'), otherwise known as Sydney High School ('SHS') or simply High, is an Australian government-funded single-sex academically selective secondary day school for boys, located at Moore Park, New South Wales, a s ...

in 1894. A

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, he made his debut for New South Wales in 1897–98, and after two matches in 1901–02 he was selected to tour England in 1902 as the deputy wicket-keeper. He played his first Test in 1907–08, when he played all five Tests against England. He toured England again in 1909, playing all five Tests, and he also played all five Tests when South Africa toured in 1910–11, and when England toured in 1911–12. He resumed his Test career for the last two Tests against England in 1920–21, although he was nearly 43, and toured England in 1921, playing four Tests, and South Africa in 1921–22, playing his last two Tests. In all he took 44

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and 21

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in 28 Test matches. As a batsman, he is often credited with the invention of the scoop shot that sails over fine-leg. He often made useful runs, though in Tests he seldom batted higher than number 10. His highest Test score was 72, batting at number 3 as nightwatchman, against England in Adelaide in 1911–12. His highest first-class score was 149 for New South Wales against Queensland in 1904–05. He was the first wicket-keeper to squat on his haunches rather than bend over from the waist. In 1932, at the age of 54, he toured the U.S. and Canada with an unofficial side captained by

Vic Richardson Victor York "Yorker" Richardson (7 September 189430 October 1969), nicknamed The Guardsman, was a leading Australian sportsman of the 1920s and 1930s, captaining the Australia cricket team and the South Australia Australian rules football te ...

. In 1946 the England captain

Wally Hammond Walter Reginald Hammond (19 June 1903 – 1 July 1965) was an English first-class cricketer who played for Gloucestershire in a career that lasted from 1920 to 1951. Beginning as a professional, he later became an amateur and was appointed capt ...

and Major Rupert Howard (Secretary of

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and MCC tour manager) went to visit Sammy Carter in

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. The wicketkeeper of

Warwick Armstrong Warwick Windridge Armstrong (22 May 1879 – 13 July 1947) was an Australian cricketer who played 50 Test matches between 1902 and 1921. An all-rounder, he captained Australia in ten Test matches between 1920 and 1921, and was undefeated, winn ...

's 1921 Australians, who now used a wheelchair, had donated £1,000 to the restoration of the

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which had been bombed during the war. They wished to give him their personal thanks. He worked as an undertaker, sometimes coming to matches in a hearse.

Christopher Martin-Jenkins Christopher Dennis Alexander Martin-Jenkins, Order of the British Empire, MBE (20 January 1945 – 1 January 2013), also known as CMJ, was a British cricket journalist and a President of Marylebone Cricket Club, MCC. He was also the longest serv ...

(1983). ''The Complete Who's Who of Test Cricketers''. Rigby, Adelaide. p. 183. .

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Carter, Sammy 1878 births 1948 deaths Australia Test cricketers New South Wales cricketers People from Northowram Sportspeople from Calderdale Australian cricketers Wicket-keepers Cricketers from West Yorkshire English emigrants to colonial Australia People educated at Sydney Boys High School