{{short description|West Indies cricketer (born 1943)}} {{multiple issues| {{BLP sources|date=April 2016}} {{More footnotes needed|date=April 2016}} }} {{EngvarB|date=August 2013}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2024}} {{Infobox cricketer | name = Deryck Murray | image = | country = West Indies | fullname = Deryck Lance Murray | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1943|5|20|df=yes}} | birth_place = [[Port of Spain]], Trinidad and Tobago | nickname = | family = [[Lance Murray]] (father) | heightft = | heightinch = | heightm = | batting = Right-handed | bowling = [[Leg break]] | role = [[Wicket-keeper]] | international = true | testdebutdate = 6 June | testdebutyear = 1963 | testdebutagainst = England | testcap = | lasttestdate = 7 August | lasttestyear = 1980 | lasttestagainst = England | odidebutdate = 5 September | odidebutyear = 1973 | odidebutagainst = England | odicap = | lastodidate = 28 May | lastodiyear = 1980 | lastodiagainst = England | odishirt = | club1 = [[Trinidad and Tobago national cricket team|Trinidad and Tobago]] | year1 = 1960–1981 | club2 = [[Cambridge University Cricket Club|Cambridge University]] | year2 = 1965–1966 | club3 = [[Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club|Nottinghamshire]] | year3 = 1966–1969 | club4 = [[Warwickshire County Cricket Club|Warwickshire]] | year4 = 1972–1975 | columns = 4 | column1 = [[Test cricket|Test]] | matches1 = 62 | runs1 = 1,993 | bat avg1 = 22.90 | 100s/50s1 = 0/11 | top score1 = 91 | deliveries1 = 0 | wickets1 = – | bowl avg1 = – | fivefor1 = – | tenfor1 = – | best bowling1 = – | catches/stumpings1 = 181/8 | column2 = [[One Day International|ODI]] | matches2 = 26 | runs2 = 294 | bat avg2 = 24.50 | 100s/50s2 = 0/2 | top score2 = 61[[not out|*]] | deliveries2 = 0 | wickets2 = – | bowl avg2 = – | fivefor2 = – | tenfor2 = – | best bowling2 = – | catches/stumpings2 = 37/1 | column3 = [[First-class cricket|FC]] | matches3 = 367 | runs3 = 13,292 | bat avg3 = 28.28 | 100s/50s3 = 10/72 | top score3 = 166[[not out|*]] | deliveries3 = 500 | wickets3 = 5 | bowl avg3 = 73.40 | fivefor3 = 0 | tenfor3 = 0 | best bowling3 = 2/50 | catches/stumpings3 = 740/108 | column4 = [[List A cricket|LA]] | matches4 = 144 | runs4 = 1,938 | bat avg4 = 23.63 | 100s/50s4 = 0/7 | top score4 = 82 | deliveries4 = 0 | wickets4 = – | bowl avg4 = – | fivefor4 = – | tenfor4 = – | best bowling4 = – | catches/stumpings4 = 164/14 | date = 17 October | year = 2010 | medaltemplates = {{MedalSport|Men's [[Cricket]]}} {{MedalCountry|{{cr|WIN}}}} <!-- Mention Host Names for Team Sports--> {{MedalCompetition|[[ICC Cricket World Cup]]}} {{Medal|Winner|[[1975 Cricket World Cup|1975 England]]|}} {{Medal|Winner|[[1979 Cricket World Cup|1979 England]]|}} | source = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/1/1204/1204.html CricketArchive }}
'''Deryck Lance Murray''' (born 20 May 1943) is a former [[West Indian cricket team|West Indies]] [[cricket]]er. A [[wicketkeeper]] and right-handed batsman, Murray kept wicket to the West Indian fast bowling attacks of the 1970s (including [[Andy Roberts (cricketer)|Andy Roberts]], [[Michael Holding]], [[Joel Garner]] and [[Colin Croft]]); his glovework effected 189 Test dismissals and greatly enhanced the potency of the bowling attack.
Murray captained [[Trinidad and Tobago national cricket team|Trinidad and Tobago]] 1976–1981, and was vice-captain of the sides which won the [[1975 Cricket World Cup|1975 World Cup]] and the [[1979 Cricket World Cup|1979 World Cup]]. He deputised for [[Clive Lloyd]] as West Indies captain in one Test match in 1979.
==Early and personal life== Murray was born in [[Port of Spain]], [[Trinidad and Tobago]], and educated at [[Queen's Royal College]]; he first played for [[Trinidad and Tobago national cricket team]] while still at school. He went on to study economics at [[Jesus College, Cambridge]], earning his [[Blue (university sport)|Cambridge blue]] and captaining [[Cambridge University Cricket Club]] in 1966. That same year, he was [[sent down]] from Cambridge after failing his Part I [[tripos]] examinations in both economics and history; the news made the front page of ''[[The Times]]''.<ref>{{cite news |title=Cambridge Captain Sent Down |work=The Times |date=24 June 1966 |page=1}}</ref> He later studied Industrial Economics at the [[University of Nottingham]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Deryck Murray |url=https://windrushscandal.org/files/2024/02/Deryck-Murray-Interview.pdf |website=Windrush Scandal |access-date=9 July 2025}}</ref> Murray married Maureen in 1967; he has two sons and a grandson.
==Cricket career== In his career, Murray played as a [[wicketkeeper]] for the national Trinidad and Tobago team as well as playing 62 [[Test cricket|Tests]] for the [[West Indies cricket team|West Indies]]. He was first selected for the West Indies as a 20-year-old, under the captaincy of [[Frank Worrell]]; in his maiden series in 1963 he effected a record 24 dismissals. Though he never scored a Test century, Murray's right-handed batting in the middle order could be effective. During his highest Test score of 91, against [[India national cricket team|India]] in 1975, he shared a partnership worth 250 runs with [[Clive Lloyd]] (who scored 242 not out).
Probably Murray's most famous performance came in a match in the 1975 [[Cricket World Cup]] against Pakistan when he inspired the West Indies to an unlikely and important one-wicket victory with his highest [[ODI cricket|one-day international]] score of 61 not out, sharing in an unbroken last-wicket stand of 64 with [[Andy Roberts (cricketer)|Andy Roberts]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/top-world-cup-performances-deryck-murray-and-andy-roberts-steal-the-game-from-pakistan-500192 |title=The Murray-Roberts heist|access-date=22 March 2022}}</ref> The West Indies went onto win the final, Murray clinching victory with the run out of [[Jeff Thomson]]. Murray also played in the West Indies victory in the final of the second world cup in 1979.
Murray captained the West Indies in one Test against Australia in 1979, and in two one-day internationals.
Murray played in the English [[County Championship]] for [[Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club|Nottinghamshire]] and [[Warwickshire County Cricket Club|Warwickshire]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.trentbridge.co.uk/trentbridge/history/players/deryck-murray.html|title=DERYCK MURRAY|publisher=[[Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club|Nottinghamshire]]|website=trentbridge.co.uk}}</ref>
==Later career== Murray served as a diplomat in the [[Diplomatic service|Foreign Service]] of Trinidad and Tobago 1978–1989, becoming a representative to the [[United Nations]] in New York, where he served as Vice-Chairman of the Fifth Committee and Chairman of the Committee for Programme & Coordination. He also worked in the financial services industry. Murray officiated as [[match referee]] for three [[One Day International]]s in 1992. He has also served as President of the [[Trinidad and Tobago Cricket Board]]. Murray is also Chairman of the Trinidad and Tobago Transparency Institute, the local branch of the anti-corruption organisation [[Transparency International]].
In September 2019 he was appointed Trinidad and Tobago's [[High Commissioner]] to Jamaica.<ref>{{cite news |title=Deryck Murray appointed High Commissioner to Jamaica |url=https://trinidadexpress.com/news/local/deryck-murray-appointed-high-commissioner-to-jamaica/article_1427a4f0-db8b-11e9-97b7-23cefaa8e3a6.html |access-date=18 November 2020 |work=Daily Express |date=20 September 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Johnson |first=Andy |date=1 October 2019 |title=Foreign service issues |work=[[Trinidad and Tobago Express]] |url=https://trinidadexpress.com/opinion/columnists/foreign-service-issues/article_1460c062-e4ac-11e9-aa34-1727386088ae.html |access-date=27 February 2022}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{cricinfo | ref=westindies/content/player/52441.html}} *[https://web.archive.org/web/20071028083831/http://www.windiescricket.com/files/WICBMurrayBio.pdf WICB profile] (archived 2007)
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