Deryck Murray
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Full name | Deryck Lance Murray | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago | 20 May 1943|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Leg break | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | Wicket-keeper | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Relations | Lance Murray (father) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Test debut | 6 June 1963 v England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last Test | 7 August 1980 v England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ODI debut | 5 September 1973 v England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last ODI | 28 May 1980 v England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1960–1981 | Trinidad and Tobago | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1965–1966 | Cambridge University | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1966–1969 | Nottinghamshire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1972–1975 | Warwickshire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: CricketArchive, 17 October 2010 |
Deryck Lance Murray (born 20 May 1943) is a former West Indies cricketer. A wicketkeeper and right-handed batsman, Murray kept wicket to the West Indian fast bowling attacks of the 1970s (including Andy Roberts, Michael Holding, Joel Garner and Colin Croft); his glovework effected 189 Test dismissals and greatly enhanced the potency of the bowling attack.
Murray captained Trinidad and Tobago 1976–1981, and was vice-captain of the sides which won the 1975 World Cup and the 1979 World Cup. He deputised for Clive Lloyd as West Indies captain in one Test match in 1979.
Early and personal life[]
Murray was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, and educated at Queen's Royal College; he first played for Trinidad and Tobago national cricket team while still at school. He went on to study at the University of Nottingham and Jesus College, Cambridge, earning his Cambridge blue and captaining Cambridge University Cricket Club in 1966. Murray married Maureen in 1967; they have two sons.
Playing career[]
In his career, Murray played as a wicketkeeper for the national Trinidad and Tobago team as well as playing 62 Tests for the West Indies. He was first selected for the West Indies as a 20-year-old, under the captaincy of Frank Worrell; in his maiden series in 1963 he effected a record 24 dismissals. Though he never scored a Test century, Murray's right-handed batting in the middle order could be effective. During his highest Test score of 91, against India in 1975, he shared a partnership worth 250 runs with Clive Lloyd (who scored 242 not out).
Murray played in the English County Championship for Warwickshire.
Latter career[]
Murray served as a diplomat in the Foreign Service of Trinidad and Tobago 1978–1989, becoming a representative to the United Nations in New York, where he served as Vice-Chairman of the Fifth Committee and Chairman of the Committee for Programme & Coordination. He also worked in the financial services industry. Murray officiated as match referee for three One Day Internationals in 1992. He is currently[when?] serving as President of the Trinidad and Tobago Cricket Board.
Murray is also Chairman of the Trinidad and Tobago Transparency Institute, the local branch of the anti-corruption organisation Transparency International. In September 2019 he was appointed Trinidad and Tobago's High Commissioner to Jamaica.[1]
References[]
- ^ "Deryck Murray appointed High Commissioner to Jamaica". Daily Express. 20 September 2019. Retrieved 18 November 2020.
External links[]
- Deryck Murray at ESPNcricinfo
- WICB profile (archived 2007)
- Trinidad and Tobago cricketers
- West Indies One Day International cricketers
- West Indies Test cricketers
- West Indies Test cricket captains
- Cricketers from Port of Spain
- World Series Cricket players
- North Trinidad cricketers
- Cricketers at the 1975 Cricket World Cup
- Cricketers at the 1979 Cricket World Cup
- 1943 births
- Living people
- Alumni of Jesus College, Cambridge
- Cambridge University cricketers
- Warwickshire cricketers
- Nottinghamshire cricketers
- International Cavaliers cricketers
- Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers
- Alumni of Queen's Royal College, Trinidad
- A. E. R. Gilligan's XI cricketers
- Wicket-keepers