 Despite playing just one game during England 's 2010 World Cup qualification campaign , he was named in Capello 's 30 @-@ man preliminary squad for the 2010 World Cup on 11 May 2010 . He played 61 minutes of their 3 – 1 warm @-@ up friendly win over Mexico before being replaced by Tom <unk> . On 2 June , Carrick was then named in the final 23 @-@ man squad to fly to South Africa for the tournament , before being given the squad number 22 . During the World Cup Carrick failed to make it onto the pitch , remaining an unused member of the squad . England were eventually knocked out of the tournament as they lost 4 – 1 to Germany in their second round tie on 27 June . 
