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Full name David Anthony Murray
Born May 29, 1950, Murray's Gap, Westbury Road, St Michael, Bridgetown, Barbados
Current age 58 years 173 days
Major teams West Indies,Barbados
Batting style Right-hand bat
Fielding position Wicketkeeper
Relations Father - ED Weekes,Son - RL Hoyte
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
BF
SR
100
50
4s
6s
Ct
St
Tests
19
31
3
601
84
21.46
0
3
0
57
5
ODIs
10
7
2
45
35
9.00
131
34.35
0
0
6
0
16
0
First-class
114
176
30
4503
206*
30.84
7
19
293
30
List A
49
37
11
627
78
24.11
0
4
68
3
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
Tests
19
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
ODIs
10
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
First-class
114
12
11
0
-
-
-
5.50
-
0
0
0
List A
49
8
13
0
-
-
-
9.75
-
0
0
0
Career statistics
Test debut
West Indies v Australia at Georgetown, Mar 31-Apr 5, 1978 scorecard
Last Test
Australia v West Indies at Sydney, Jan 2-6, 1982 scorecard
Test statistics
ODI debut
England v West Indies at The Oval, Sep 7, 1973 scorecard
Last ODI
Pakistan v West Indies at Adelaide, Dec 5, 1981 scorecard
ODI statistics
First-class span
1970/71 - 1981/82
List A span
1972/73 - 1983/84
Profile
But for his namesake Deryck, the West Indian David Murray would surely have played many more than 19 Tests. He was a talented wicketkeeper and a capable batsman who made three Test fifties and a first-class double hundred, at Jamshedpur on the 1978-79 tour of India. He took over from Deryck Murray - they were not related - in 1980-81 and was briefly No. 1. But he had serious underlying drug problems and was almost sent home from Australia in 1975-76. In Australia six years later he played back-to-back Tests with a broken finger but reacted angrily to being dropped for the one-dayers that followed and did not play again. In 1983 he threw in his lot with the West Indies rebel tour of South Africa and received a life ban. He lived in Australia until 1991 when he returned to his native Bridgetown. He fell on hard times and became a drug addict.
Martin Williamson
