Murray Muir
Personal information
Full name
Murray Fergus Muir
Born(1928-02-16)16 February 1928
Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand
Died5 October 2004(2004-10-05) (aged 76)
Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand
BowlingRight-arm offbreak
RelationsLois Muir (wife)
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1949/40Otago
Career statistics
Competition First-class
Matches 1
Runs scored 0
Batting average 0.00
100s/50s 0/0
Top score 0
Balls bowled 30
Wickets 0
Bowling average –
5 wickets in innings –
10 wickets in match –
Best bowling –
Catches/stumpings 1/–
Source: ESPNcricinfo, 22 October 2020

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]

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

  1. 1 2 "Murray Muir". ESPNCricinfo. Retrieved 18 May 2016.
  2. ↑ 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.)
  3. ↑ Murray Muir, CricketArchive. Retrieved 26 November 2023. (subscription required)
  4. ↑ 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.)
  5. ↑ Jackson, Desney, ed. (1979). Notable New Zealanders. Auckland: Paul Hamblyn. p. 332. ISBN 086832020X.


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