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Full name | Leo James Carter | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Wellington, New Zealand | 10 December 1994||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Left-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right-arm spin | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | Batter | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Relations | Bob Carter (father) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2014/15–2023/24 | Canterbury | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2024/25 | Otago | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
FC debut | 9 March 2015 Canterbury v Northern Districts | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
LA debut | 30 December 2014 Canterbury v Auckland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source:ESPNcricinfo,16 August 2024 |
Leo James Carter (born 10 December 1994) is a New Zealand cricketer who plays for Otago. [1] He is the son of former Canterbury and Northamptonshire batsman,and former New Zealand women's national cricket team coach,Bob Carter.
Carter played for Canterbury for ten seasons,scoring 2,686 first-class runs,1,238 List A runs and 999 Twenty20 runs,leaving the province as the team's eighth highest Twenty20 run scorer. [2] [3]
Carter was born at Wellington in 1994 and educated at St Andrew's College,Christchurch and Lincoln University. He played age-group cricket for Canterbury and made his debut for the New Zealand under-19 side in April 2013 before going on to be part of New Zealand's squad for the 2014 ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup. He made his senior provincial debut at the end of 2014. He spent the 2015 off-season on a cricket scholarship in the United Kingdom,playing Second XI cricket for Northamptonshire and Surrey County Cricket Clubs, [4] before establishing himself as a key member of the Cantrbury side. [5] [6]
Described as an "elegant" left-handed batter who was one of Canterbury's "most reliable and consistent performers", [6] Carter became the first New Zealander to hit six sixes in one over. He achieved this in a January 2020 Super Smach match between against Northern Districts off of the bowling of Anton Devcich,becoming the fourth batsman to his six sixes from an over in Twenty20 cricket. [7] [8]
In February 2020,in a match against Wellington in the 2019–20 Plunket Shield season,Carter scored his maiden double century in first-class cricket,finishing with an unbeaten 226. [9] In June 2020,he was offered a contract by Canterbury ahead of the 2020–21 domestic cricket season, [10] [11] and in November 2020,he was named as the captain of Canterbury ahead of their 2020–21 Ford Trophy campaign. [12]
Carter announced that he would leave Canterbury in July 2024. He joined Otago later the same month. [2] [6]
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