Phillip Carrick was an English first-class cricket

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er, who played for Yorkshire County Cricket Club

Yorkshire County Cricket Club

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 between 1970 and 1993.

Carrick was born in Armley

Armley

Armley is a district in the west of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It starts less than a mile from Leeds city centre. Like much of Leeds, Armley grew in the industrial revolution and had several mills, one of which is now the Armley Mills museum...

, Leeds

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, Yorkshire, England, and began his first-class career in 1970. The left-arm spinner, nicknamed "Fergie", took more than 1,000 wickets over his twenty three year career, and fell just six runs short of hitting 10,000 first-class runs for Yorkshire. His bowling partnership with Geoff Cope

Geoff Cope

Geoff Cope played first-class cricket for Yorkshire from 1966 to 1980, and appeared in three Test matches for England.-Life and career:...

 was a successful one for the county. He captained Yorkshire to victory over Northamptonshire

Northamptonshire County Cricket Club

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 in the 1987 Benson & Hedges Cup

Benson & Hedges Cup

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, having had his benefit year in 1985. As well as Yorkshire he spent two seasons playing in South Africa with Eastern Province

Eastern Province cricket team

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 and Northern Transvaal

Northerns cricket team

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. After retiring from first-class cricket in 1993, he continued to play local league cricket, captaining Pudsey Congs to the Bradford League title and he also had success as an umpire

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 for the ECB

England and Wales Cricket Board

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.

He died of leukaemia

Leukemia

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 aged 47 in January 2000, survived by his wife and two daughters. His funeral was held in Bradford Cathedral

Bradford Cathedral

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. Among those attending were his cricketing colleagues Brian Close

Brian Close

Dennis Brian Close , usually known as Brian Close, is a former cricketer who is the youngest man ever to play Test cricket for England. He was picked for the Test team to play against New Zealand, in July 1949, when he was 18 years old. Close went on to play 22 Test matches for England,...

, Ray Illingworth

Ray Illingworth

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, Martyn Moxon

Martyn Moxon

Martyn Douglas Moxon is a former English cricketer, who played ten Tests and eight One Day Internationals for England and appeared for Yorkshire for 17 seasons from 1981 to 1997...

, Dickie Bird, Graham Gooch

Graham Gooch

Graham Alan Gooch OBE DL is a former cricketer who captained Essex and England. He was one of the most successful international batsmen of his generation, and through a career spanning from 1973 until 2000, he became the most prolific run scorer of all time with 67,057 runs...

, Mike Gatting

Mike Gatting

Michael "Mike" William Gatting OBE is a former English cricketer, who played first-class cricket for Middlesex and for England from 1977 to 1995, captaining the national side in twenty-three Test matches between 1986 and 1988...

 and John Emburey

John Emburey

John Ernest Emburey is a former English cricketer, who played for Middlesex, Northamptonshire, Western Province, Berkshire and England....

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