Murray Fergus Muir (16 February 1928 – 5 October 2004) was a New Zealand cricketer. He played one first-class match for Otago during the 1949–50 season.[1]
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| Full name | Murray Fergus Muir | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 16 February 1928 Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 5 October 2004 (aged 76) Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm offbreak | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Relations | Lois Muir (wife) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1949/40 | Otago | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: ESPNcricinfo, 22 October 2020 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Muir was born at Dunedin in 1928.[2] An off break bowler who played club cricket for the Grange club in Dunedin, he played for an Otago side against Southland in December 1949 before playing in his only first-class fixture later in the season. Against Canterbury at Carisbrook he did not take a wicket in five overs and recorded a duck in the only innings in which he batted.[3] A contemporary newspaper article in the 'Otago Daily Times, described him as a slow-medium bowler who "swings the ball very late and bowls an excellent off-break".[4]
Muir married netball player and coach Lois Osborne in 1955; the couple went on to have three children.[5] He died at Anderson's Bay in Dunedin in 2004 at the age of 76.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b "Murray Muir". ESPNCricinfo. Retrieved 18 May 2016.
- ^ McCarron A (2010) New Zealand Cricketers 1863/64–2010, p. 96. Cardiff: The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. ISBN 978 1 905138 98 2 (Available online at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 5 June 2023.)
- ^ Murray Muir, CricketArchive. Retrieved 26 November 2023. (subscription required)
- ^ Well balanced Grange team deserves honours, Otago Daily Times, issue 27042, 29 March 1949, p. 8. (Available online at Papers Past. Retrieved 26 November 2023.)
- ^ Jackson, Desney, ed. (1979). Notable New Zealanders. Auckland: Paul Hamblyn. p. 332. ISBN 086832020X.
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