Michael Carberry

At 44 years old, Michael Carberry has this physical status:

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. The tour also included 2 List A matches against the same opposition. Further matches for England A, by then renamed the England Lions, came in early 2008 when the Lions toured India. He played in 2 Duleep Trophy matches on the tour, making 91 in his first innings of the tour against Central Zone. 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. Carberry was called into the England Performance Squad for their tour to South Africa in late 2009. In his first game back since breaking his finger playing for Hampshire, Carberry made exactly 100 against Gauteng. 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. He later played for the England Lions in the United Arab Emirates. He played a single List A match against Pakistan A at the DSC Cricket Stadium, in which he was dismissed for a duck by Abdur Rehman. On the same tour, he also played a Twenty20 match against England, scoring 8 runs before being dismissed by Ryan Sidebottom.

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.

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.

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