[3] Carter also played in a critical close finish the following season against Nottinghamshire, where he and Flavell managed to get home by a single wicket and virtually seal the county's first Championship title.
[4] Carter did not make his debut until the age of nearly 24, when he played for Worcestershire against Oxford University in early June 1961, taking four wickets in the second innings.
Having come into the team in place of Coldwell, who had been injured, in the second innings Carter returned an analysis of 4.1–2–7–6, including a hat-trick, as Lancashire were dismissed for 55.
[2] He achieved career-best innings returns in both forms of the game during 1971: 7/61 in the Championship against Yorkshire at Dudley (the last-ever first-class match at the ground),[8] and 5/27 against Sussex in the John Player League.
[9] Carter's Worcestershire career came to an abrupt end midway through the 1972 season, and he was to play only one more first-class game, for Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) against Kent in May 1973.