deryck murray Profile - ICC Profile, Age, Career Info & Stats.
deryck murray is a cricketer(sportsman) from West Indies. His ICC profile, age, career info & stats are given below.
Full Name
Deryck Lance Murray
Born
May 20, 1943, Port of Spain, Trinidad
Age
80 years old
Batting Style
Right hand Bat
Bowling Style
Legbreak
Fielding Position
Wicketkeeper
Playing Role
Wicketkeeper Batter
Batting Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 62 | 26 | - | - |
Inn | 96 | 17 | - | - |
Runs | 1993 | 294 | - | - |
Avg | 22.91 | 24.5 | - | - |
SR | 89.61 | 62.82 | - | - |
HS | 91 | 61 | - | - |
NO | 9 | 5 | - | - |
100s | 0 | 0 | - | - |
50s | 11 | 2 | - | - |
4s | 160 | 18 | - | - |
6s | 7 | 2 | - | - |
Bowling Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 62 | 26 | - | - |
Inn | - | - | - | - |
Balls | - | - | - | - |
Runs | - | - | - | - |
Wkt | - | - | - | - |
BBI | - | - | - | - |
BBM | - | - | - | - |
Eco | - | - | - | - |
Avg | - | - | - | - |
5W | - | - | - | - |
10W | - | - | - | - |
Teams he has played for:
- LH Murray
- West Indies
- Cambridge University
- Nottinghamshire
- Trinidad
- Warwickshire
Heres what CricBuzz says about him.
Murray was educated at Queen's Royal College. He went on to play for Trinidad while he was still at school. Murray made his Test debut in the series against England in 1963. In his first series, Murray went on to effect 24 dismissals and showed surgical-like glove-work behind the stumps. So good was his glove-work that Sir Frank Worrell picked him in all five Tests. He didn't exactly make his mark with the bat, but came up with useful knocks.
For a brief period, he lost his spot to one of the finest wicket-keepers produced by the Caribbean Islands, Hendriks. Murray during that time went on to study at Nottingham University and Jesus College, Cambridge. He also played for Nottinghamshire and did well. In particular, he smashed a swashbuckling century in a tour match against the Indians.
The door again opened up for Murray as Hendriks got injured before the series against England in 1967-68. Hence, he was recalled. He had a good series as a keeper and even opened the batting in the Leeds Test against a fine English attack. Unfortunately for the diligent keeper, once Hendricks regained fitness, he was back in the world of wilderness.
Surprisingly, even after Hendriks faded away from the scene, Mike Frindlay and Desmond Lewis were preferred. It was only during the 1973 Test series against Australia that he was able to establish a regular place in the side. In the Test match played at Bridgetown, Barbados, his knock of 90 helped the hosts to make a smart recovery.
In the 1975 World Cup, Murray was appointed as the deputy to Lloyd. He is famously remembered for enacting a miraculous victory in the game against Pakistan at Edgbaston. While chasing a target of 267, West Indies were tottering at 166 for 8. However, with the help of Holder and Andy Roberts, he pulled off a heist. In short, after Sarfraz Nawaz had put Pakistan in pole position, this incredible win surprised one-and-all. more so than Tom Graveney, the Man of the Match adjudicator for the game. He had by then gone to the bar believing that the match was all but over.
Even when Australia smashed West Indies to smithereens in the 1975-76 Test series, Murray essayed a few gutsy knocks. Unfortunately, in the 1977 Test match played against Pakistan at Kingston, Jamaica, Murray conceded 28 byes and that is something he would like to forget. It didn't help his cause that the likes Colin Croft, Joel Garner and Andy Roberts were wayward.
On a brighter note, Murray got the chance to captain the side in absence of Lloyd when they played a Test match against Australia at the Gabba, Brisbane in 1979. Murray played his last series against England in 1980.
After retiring from the game, Murray was appointed as a diplomat of Trinidad and Tobago. He was also a match referee for a brief period.
Heres what ESPNcricinfo says about him.
Deryck Murray was a thoughtful, composed figure in the West Indies side for 17 years. It started when Frank Worrell entrusted the wicketkeeping position in England in 1963 to a diminutive boyish figure, barely out of his teens - and was rewarded with a record 24 victims. Murray's influence on the improved status of cricketers in the Caribbean was immense, and in later life, after retirement, he took that diplomatic role on Trinidad's behalf to the United Nations. His keeping was compact, tidy and, bearing in mind some of his more exuberant successors, generally understated. Nowadays, when more runs are demanded of keepers, he might not have played as much as he did. But his batting was as dapper as his glovework. At Bombay in 1974-75 he made 91 and helped Clive Lloyd add 250 for the sixth wicket. He took to cricket administration and served as president of the Trinidad and Tobago Cricket Board. He lost the post to Azim Bassarath in 2009.
Mike Selvey November 2009