David Murray (cricketer)

David Murray

Personal information
Full name	David Anthony Murray
Born	29 May 1950 (1950-05-29) (age 61) Bridgetown, Barbados
Batting style	Right-handed
Bowling style	Leg break
Role	Wicket-keeper
Relations	Everton Weekes (father) Ricky Hoyte (son)
International information
National side	West Indies
Test debut	31 March 1978 v Australia
Last Test	2 January 1982 v Australia
ODI debut	7 September 1973 v England
Last ODI	5 December 1981 v Pakistan
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1970–1982	Barbados
Career statistics
Competition	Tests	ODIs	FC	LA
Matches	19	10	114	50
Runs scored	601	45	4,503	627
Batting average	21.46	9.00	30.84	24.11
100s/50s	0/3	0/0	7/19	0/4
Top score	84	35	206*	78
Balls bowled	0	0	12	8
Wickets	–	–	0	0
Bowling average	–	–	–	–
5 wickets in innings	–	–	0	0
10 wickets in match	–	–	0	0
Best bowling	–	–	0/1	0/13
Catches/stumpings	57/5	16/0	293/30	68/3
Source: Cricket Archive, 17 October 2010

David Anthony Murray (born May 29, 1950, Murray's Gap, Bridgetown, 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.[1]

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Name	Murray, David
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Date of birth	29 May 1950
Place of birth	Bridgetown
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