Michael Carberry

Carberry, who was born in Croydon on 29 September 1980, is of Guyanese and Barbadian descent. He was educated at St John Rigby College in West Wickham. ==Domestic cricket==

Surrey Carberry began playing for the Surrey Seconds in 1998, while the following season, he made his List A debut for the Surrey Cricket Board against Norfolk in the 1999 NatWest Trophy. He scored 19 runs in the match, which the Surrey Cricket Board won. He played in the team's following round match against Cheshire, with Carberry being dismissed for 4 runs by Christopher Hall, in a match which ended in victory for Cheshire. He spent two further years in the Surrey Seconds, before making his first-class debut for the county against Leicestershire. He played 6 first-class matches in 2001, scoring 311 runs and scoring his maiden half century, against Glamorgan. He also made his List A debut for Surrey against Leicestershire, with the match following immediately after his first-class debut. He found more opportunities that season in List A cricket, playing a handful of matches, Kent Carberry was signed initially by Kent as a batsman who could stand-in for Rob Key, whose international career was in its infancy, when he was on international duty. against Worcestershire in the 2003 National League. He made his Twenty20 debut in the 2003 season, making 5 appearances in the Twenty20 Cup. The following season, Carberry made 12 first-class appearances, which came with some success. He scored 639 runs at an average of 42.60, with two centuries and a high score of 112. A regular appearer in List A cricket for Kent that season, He fell out of favour in the County Championship in 2005, playing just a single first-class match, against Bangladesh A. He eventually opted to join Hampshire for the 2006 season. His time at Kent brought him 1510 first-class runs at an average of 37.75, with a high score of 137, and 736 one-day runs at an average of 23.74, with a high score of 79. Later speaking about his overall time and final season at Kent to the Southern Daily Echo in 2010, he said "I was pretty close to quitting", and how in his opinion "they [Kent] messed me about quite a lot for three years." Hampshire Having joined Hampshire on a two-year contract, Carberry made his first-class debut for the county against Lancashire in the 2006 County Championship. and Middlesex. Shown faith by then Hampshire captain Shane Warne and coach Paul Terry, Carberry also appeared in 15 List A matches in his first season at the Rose Bowl, His performances that season saw him selected for the England A tour to Bangladesh. The 2007 season was to prove even more successful for Carberry, with him scoring 1,067 first-class runs, which came at an average of 50.80, He played 14 List A matches in 2007, His performances in the 2007 saw Carberry named as the Hampshire Cricket Society Player of the Year, as well as seeing him selected for the England Lions tour of India. He played for the Marylebone Cricket Club in the Champion County match against Sussex at the beginning of the 2008 season, batting once in the match and scoring 8 runs before being dismissed by Ryan Harris. His form dropped in 2008, with him scoring 815 first-class runs at average of 31.34, with a single century score of 108 In the 2008 Twenty20 Cup, Carberry had better fortunes, scoring 334 runs at an average of 37.11, with a high score of 58. His total number of runs by August in the County Championship were third overall, behind Marcus Trescothick and Mark Ramprakash. Ten years after first playing List A cricket, Carberry also scored his maiden century in that format, making an unbeaten 121 against Ireland in the 2009 Friends Provident Trophy, with Carberry sharing in a Hampshire record partnership for the 3rd wicket in List A cricket of 260 with Sean Ervine. His performances in limited-overs cricket that season were and remain the best of his career, with 431 runs coming at an average of 53.87, the only time in his career to date his season average has passed this mark. His good form continued in that seasons Twenty20 Cup, with Carberry scoring 307 runs at an average of 30.70, with a high score of 62. Despite missing the second half of the season, Carberry was again named as Hampshire Cricket Society Player of the Year. He also played a key role in Hampshire's 2010 Friends Provident t20 victory, playing 12 matches in the format that season, scoring 205 runs at an average of 20.50, with a high score of 41. while in the final itself, he was dismissed for a duck by Somerset's Ben Phillips. Despite this, Hampshire tied with Somerset's score, but won the match on the basis of having lost fewer wickets in doing so. Carberry's health was seriously affected, when in November 2010 he was diagnosed with blood clots on his lungs which ruled him out of travelling to Australia with the England Performance Programme. The blood clots threatened his career, with Carberry only being given the all-clear to resume his cricketing career mid-way through the 2011 season. On 5 August 2011 Carberry hit his career best score of 300 not out in a County Championship match against Yorkshire. Not only did he make his highest score, but during his innings a number of records fell. Carberry and Neil McKenzie set a new Hampshire record for their 3rd wicket in first-class cricket, setting a partnership of 523 runs to surpass the previous best set by George Brown and Phil Mead in 1927. On 7 August 2013 Carberry hit his first T20 century as he reached 100 (not out) against Lancashire in the 2013 Friends Life Quarter Final. Leicestershire Following a brief loan spell shortly before the close of the 2017 season, he has joined Leicestershire permanently for the 2018 season. He was appointed captain in October 2017 succeeding Mark Cosgrove. In May 2018, however, he was relieved of the captaincy following a review by the head coach. Leicestershire announced that Carberry was leaving the club on 17 October 2018. ==International career==

, who dismissed Carberry in the 2nd innings of his first Test match Carberry had represented England from U-15 level, he later made his debut for England U-19s against New Zealand U-19s in a Youth Test match in February 1999. He went on to play for England U-19s at the 2000 Under-19 World Cup in Sri Lanka. He played a total of 6 Youth Test matches and 12 Youth One Day Internationals. His next international honours came after his move to Hampshire, which had revitalised what was a stuttering career. Following a good debut 2006 season for Hampshire, Carberry was selected for the England A tour to Bangladesh in 2007, in which he played 2 first-class matches against Bangladesh A. He also played a single first-class match for the Lions against the touring New Zealanders on their 2008 tour of England, scoring 41 in the first innings, before being dismissed by Iain O'Brien, while in the second-innings he scored 100 not out. In August 2009, he was once again called up to the England Lions team to play Australia in a two-day match at the St Lawrence Ground, Canterbury. Despite being a 4-day match, it was not rated as first-class. With the England team also touring South Africa at this time, Carberry was called up to the England squad as cover for Paul Collingwood, for the 3rd Test against South Africa. Carberry instead acted as 12th man in the 3rd and 4th Tests. On the same tour, he also played a Twenty20 match against England, Carberry was retained in the England Test squad for the 2009–10 tour of Bangladesh, with England choosing to rest captain and opener Andrew Strauss, with fellow opener Alastair Cook taking over the captaincy. Carberry was selected for the opening Test at the Zohur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chittagong. He opened the batting with Cook, making 30 in the first-innings in an opening stand worth 72, before Carberry fell leg before to Mahmudullah. He made 34 in the second-innings, before being dismissed by Abdur Razzak, with England winning the match by 181 runs. He demonstrated his highly rated fielding by initiating the run out of Naeem Islam in the Bangladesh first-innings. Carberry was called up in summer 2013 to the England squads for both the T20 and ODI series' against Australia. On 14 September he took his first catch – a one-handed catch to dismiss Mathew Wade – and soon after hit his maiden England fifty on his way to 63 in his fourth match. 2013–14 Ashes Tour It was announced on 23 September 2013 that Carberry would be part of the England touring squad for the 2013–14 Ashes series. He played a number of valuable innings in the warm-up games, including 78 against Western Australia in the first match of the tour, followed by an unbeaten - he retired out - 153 against Australia A. On 21 November 2013 he made his England Ashes debut in the first match in Brisbane. He opened the innings with skipper Cook on the second day, and top-scored with 40 runs in a generally composed innings. In the second Test, in Adelaide, Carberry scored 60, his maiden Test half-century. Even though the remainder of the tour was frustrating for Carberry, as he was unable to convert a number of good starts into significant scores, he did finish the Ashes series with the third highest English batting average, above the likes of Root, Bell and Cook. ==References==