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Leo James Carter (born 10 December 1994) is a New Zealand who plays for Otago. He is the son of former Canterbury and Northamptonshire batsman, and former New Zealand women's national cricket team coach, Bob Carter.
Carter played for Canterbury for ten seasons, scoring 2,686 first-class runs, 1,238 List A runs and 999 Twenty20 runs, leaving the province as the team's eighth highest Twenty20 run scorer.Seconi A (2024) Volts stick with proven players, Otago Daily Times, 19 July 2024. Retrieved 16 August 2024. O’Donnell and Carter headline men’s domestic contract movements, New Zealand Cricket, 18 July 2024. Retrieved 16 August 2024.
Described as an "elegant" left-handed batter who was one of Canterbury's "most reliable and consistent performers", Carter became the first New Zealander to hit six sixes in one over. He achieved this in a January 2020 Super Smach match between against Northern Districts off of the bowling of Anton Devcich, becoming the fourth batsman to his six sixes from an over in Twenty20 cricket.
In February 2020, in a match against Wellington in the 2019–20 Plunket Shield season, Carter scored his maiden double century in first-class cricket, finishing with an unbeaten 226. In June 2020, he was offered a contract by Canterbury ahead of the 2020–21 domestic cricket season, and in November 2020, he was named as the captain of Canterbury ahead of their 2020–21 Ford Trophy campaign.
Carter announced that he would leave Canterbury in July 2024. He joined Otago later the same month.
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