| Personal information | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Andrew Joseph Murtagh | |||
| Born | 6 May 1949 Dublin, Ireland |
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| Batting style | Right-handed | |||
| Bowling style | Right-arm medium | |||
| Domestic team information | ||||
| Years | Team | |||
| 1973/1974 | Eastern Province | |||
| 1973–1977 | Hampshire | |||
| Career statistics | ||||
| Competition | FC | LA | ||
| Matches | 27 | 48 | ||
| Runs scored | 640 | 481 | ||
| Batting average | 15.23 | 16.58 | ||
| 100s/50s | –/1 | –/1 | ||
| Top score | 65 | 65* | ||
| Balls bowled | 714 | 570 | ||
| Wickets | 6 | 23 | ||
| Bowling average | 81.50 | 19.73 | ||
| 5 wickets in innings | – | 1 | ||
| 10 wickets in match | – | – | ||
| Best bowling | 2/46 | 5/33 | ||
| Catches/stumpings | 9/– | 17;/– | ||
| Source: Cricinfo, 23 December 2009 | ||||
Andrew Joseph Murtagh (born 6 May 1949 in Dublin, Ireland) is an Irish born retired English cricketer. Murtagh was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm medium pace.
Murtagh represented Hampshire, making his first-class debut against Gloucestershire in 1973. That same season Murtagh made his one-day debut against local rivals Sussex.
After the end of the 1973 County Championship Murtagh signed for Eastern Province in South Africa. He represented them in a single first-class match against Natal.
Murtagh represented the club until 1977, with his final first-class match against Gloucestershire and his final one-day match against the same opposition at the United Services Recreation Ground in Portsmouth.
Murtagh was more at home on the one-day form of the game. In his 48 one-day matches for Hampshire Murtagh took 23 wickets at an average of 19.73 with best figures of 5-33. Murtagh batted mostly in the lower-middle order, with one first-class fifty and one one-day fifty to his name: both scores of 65. His bowling in first-class cricket yielded 6 wickets at an average of 81.50.
His nephews Tim Murtagh and Chris Murtagh have both played first-class and List-A cricket for Surrey and Middlesex