Inducted 27th April 2001
Club
- Played Seniors between 1979/80 to 2001/02 (A1 to C2) – 2,632 runs & 623 wickets;
- Highest wicket taker in Club’s history with 623 wickets @ 18.8;
- Developed Club Wisden of historical player stats. This was a massive task taking over 10-years and involved sourcing and then consolidating historical player level stats into a data base data from many and disparate sources;
- Seniors Treasurer 1986/87 to 1990/1991;
- President’s Award winner 1998/99
- Seniors Captain for many years;
- Club statistician (1994/95 to 2014/15).
As a player David was a fast medium-pace bowler and handy lower middle order bat. David took many wickets through sheer accuracy and as he got older developed highly effective subtle variations in deliveries.
The development of our Club Wisden though is the most significant legacy that David gifted our Club. The effort to source data from many hundreds of ‘D’ Sheets (season-end statistical summary) held at many locations was a massive task that is now an invaluable data base and provides a statistical history that is rare in any Club.
Photo: David Carey played between 1979/780 to 2001/02 and played all Grades between A1 and D2 Grade. He is the highest wicket taker in our history. Photo taken at Ross Anderson’s wedding on 1 June 1991.