Junior Murray

Junior Murray
Personal information
Full name Junior Randalph Murray
Born 20 January 1968
St. George's, Grenada
Batting style Right-handed
Role Wicket-keeper
International information
National side
Test debut 2 January 1993 v Australia
Last Test 19 April 2002 v India
ODI debut 4 December 1992 v Pakistan
Last ODI 7 February 1999 v South Africa
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1986–2007 Windward Islands
Career statistics
Competition Tests ODIs FC LA
Matches 33 55 149 122
Runs scored 918 678 6,830 1,895
Batting average 22.39 22.60 30.90 23.10
100s/50s 1/3 0/5 11/30 1/8
Top score 101* 86 218 100*
Catches/stumpings 99/3 46/7 337/31 93/31
Source: Cricket Archive, 21 October 2010

Junior Randalph Murray (born January 20, 1968) is a West Indian cricketer.

One of a handful of Grenadians to play Test cricket for the West Indies, Junior Murray was a wicketkeeper batsman. He started his domestic career as a batsman and only later developed into a keeper, although he never looked entirely confident with the gloves as he was arguably too tall and suffered in comparison with the dapper Jeff Dujon. Nonetheless he played 33 Tests for the West Indies and scored his only Test century, in the lower order against New Zealand. He finished his international career, on the disastrous tour of South Africa of 1998–99, with over 100 Test dismissals. Murray often opened in One Day Internationals with varying degrees of success.

He played his domestic cricket for the Windward Islands, making his first class debut in the 1986/87 season and playing on into 2006/07. In 148 first class matches up to the end of 2006 he scored 6,813 runs at a handy 31.1 with a best of 218 against Guyana. In 122 list A one day matches he scored 1,895 runs at 23.1 with one unbeaten hundred against Bermuda in the Red Stripe Bowl.

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