Peter Murray-Willis

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Peter Murray-Willis

England
Personal information
Full name Peter Earnshaw Murray-Willis
Born 14 July 1910(1910-07-14)
Castle Bromwich, Warwickshire, England
Died 7 July 1995 (aged 84)
Uckfield Park, Sussex, England
Batting style Right-handed
Domestic team information
Years Team
1938–1946 Northamptonshire
1935–1936 Worcestershire
Career statistics
FC
Matches 29
Runs scored 467
Batting average 10.37
100s/50s 0/1
Top score 54
Balls bowled 0
Wickets -
Bowling average -
5 wickets in innings -
10 wickets in match -
Best bowling -
Catches/stumpings 3/–

As of 7 September 2007
Source: [1]

Peter Earnshaw Murray-Willis (born 14 July 1910 in Castle Bromwich) was an English cricketer. He played 29 times at first-class level either side of the Second World War, at first for Worcestershire and then for Northamptonshire.

Despite his short career, in 1946 he not only won his county cap for Northamptonshire, but also captained the county on 18 occasions.[1] A Wisden writer much later called him a "somewhat miscast captain".[2]

Murray-Willis passed fifty only once in his first-class career: making 54 for Northamptonshire against his former county of Worcestershire, in a high-scoring match at Kidderminster in July 1946.[3]

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