[1] He went to Hottentots Holland High School and played for Boland before moving to Warwickshire.
Carter completed 1,000 first class runs for Warwickshire during the match against Sussex at Edgbaston in 2005.
He joined Middlesex on a loan deal in 2008, and played in the Stanford Super Series.
[2] In 2010 he received the NatWest Professional Cricketers' Association Player of the Year Award.
[3] A pelvic injury hampered the early part of the 2011 season, but on his return to the first team, he took his best career figures of 6–30 vs Lancashire.