Junior Randalph Murray MBE (born January 20, 1968) is a former

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er. He was the first Grenadian to play

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for the West Indies. He was appointed

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(MBE) in the

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for services to sport.

Domestic career

Murray started his domestic career as a football goal keeper and was very good at it. He was also just as good behind the stumps as well as a batsman. He represented his school Grenada Boy's Secondary School (GBSS) both in football and cricket. Influenced by his school master to focus on cricket rather than football for a better sporting career in the region, he played his domestic cricket for the

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, making his first class debut in the 1986/87 season and playing on into 2006/07. In 148 first class matches up to the end of 2006 he scored 6,813 runs at a handy 31.1 with a best of 218 against

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. In 122 list A one-day matches he scored 1,895 runs at 23.1 with one unbeaten hundred against

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in the Red Stripe Bowl.

International career

He played 33 Tests for the West Indies and scored his only Test century, in the lower order against New Zealand. He finished his international career, on the disastrous tour of South Africa of 1998–99, with more than 100 Test dismissals. Murray often opened in One Day Internationals with varying degrees of success.

Accolades

A stand at the Grenada National Cricket Stadium was jointly renamed in both Murray and

Rawl Lewis Rawl Nicholas Lewis (born September 5, 1974) is a Grenadan cricketer. Lewis featured as a leg spinner for both the Windward Islands and the West Indies in his cricketing career. Lewis also formerly managed the West Indies. Playing career As a na ...

' honour.

References

External links

Cricinfo Profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Murray, Junior 1968 births Living people West Indies One Day International cricketers West Indies Test cricketers Grenadian cricketers Windward Islands cricketers People from St. George's, Grenada Wicket-keepers Members of the Order of the British Empire