David Murray

West Indies|Wicketkeeper Batter
David Murray
INTL CAREER: 1973 - 1982
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Full Name

David Anthony Murray

Born

May 29, 1950, Murray's Gap, Westbury Road, St Michael, Bridgetown, Barbados

Died

November 25, 2022, Barbados, (aged 72y 180d)

Batting Style

Right hand Bat

Fielding Position

Wicketkeeper

Playing Role

Wicketkeeper Batter

RELATIONS

(father),

(son)

But for his namesake Deryck, the West Indian David Murray would surely have played many more than 19 Tests. He was a talented wicketkeeper and a capable batsman who made three Test fifties and a first-class double hundred, at Jamshedpur on the 1978-79 tour of India. He took over from Deryck Murray - they were not related - in 1980-81 and was briefly No. 1. But he had serious underlying drug problems and was almost sent home from Australia in 1975-76. In Australia six years later he played back-to-back Tests with a broken finger but reacted angrily to being dropped for the one-dayers that followed and did not play again. In 1983 he threw in his lot with the West Indies rebel tour of South Africa and received a life ban. He lived in Australia until 1991 when he returned to his native Bridgetown. He fell on hard times and became a drug addict.
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David Murray Career Stats

Batting & Fielding

FormatMatInnsNORunsHSAveBFSR100s50s4s6sCtSt
Tests193136018421.46--03-0575
ODIs107245359.0014032.140060160
FC114176304503206*30.84--719--29330
List A4937116277824.11--04--683

Bowling

FormatMatInnsBallsRunsWktsBBIBBMAveEconSR4w5w10w
Tests19------------
ODIs10------------
FC114-12110---5.50-000
List A49-8130---9.75-000
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David Murray of the rebel West Indies XI bats during a one-day match against South Africa in Durban
David Murray in action during the second Test against Pakistan in Faisalabad in 1980
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