David Murray (cricketer)

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David Murray
West Indies (WI)
David Murray
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling type -
Tests ODIs
Matches 19 10
Runs scored 601 45
Batting average 21.46 9.00
100s/50s 0/3 0/0
Top score 84 35
Balls bowled 0 0
Wickets 0 0
Bowling average - -
5 wickets in innings 0 0
10 wickets in match 0 n/a
Best bowling -/- -
Catches/stumpings 57/5 16/0

As of 25 January 2006
Source: Cricinfo.com


David Anthony Murray (born May 29, 1950, Murray's Gap, St Michael, Barbados) is a former West Indian cricketer who played in nineteen Tests and ten ODIs from 1973 to 1982.

Murray, a son of the great West Indian batsman Everton Weekes often courted controversy. Dependent on marijuana from a young age, he was almost thrown out of the 1975-76 tour to Australia, only saved by the intervention of the sympathetic senior player Lance Gibbs.

Though he was probably a finer wicketkeeper, Murray spent most of his international career as understudy to his Trinidadian namesake Deryck Murray, and was usurped in 1981 by Jeff Dujon of Jamaica. Frustrated at his lack of opportunities, he threw in his lot with the West Indian rebel tours to South Africa and received a life ban in 1983.

Murray now lives in poverty at his childhood home in Bridgetown.