Bruce Murray (sportsman)
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William Walter Bruce Murray (born 4 September 1929 in Mildura
) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne
in the Victorian Football League
(VFL) during the early 1950s and also a former first-class cricket
er for Victoria
.
Murray was a regular in the South Melbourne team for the 1951 and 1952 VFL seasons and received three Brownlow votes in the latter. In 1953 he struggled to keep his spot in the side and after managing just one senior game the following year, left the club and turned to cricket.
While handy with the bat, Murray was primarily a right-arm medium pace bowler and made four first-class appearances in the Sheffield Shield with Victoria, for a return of nine wickets at 36.88. All his matches came in the 1957/58 competition and in one, against Western Australia, he dismissed Test cricketers Ken Meuleman
and Barry Shepherd
. Murray was also a prolific all-rounder for the Prahran Cricket Club, for whom he scored over 5000 runs and took a record 426 wickets.
Mildura, Victoria
Mildura is a regional city in northwestern Victoria, Australia and seat of the Rural City of Mildura local government area. It is located in the Sunraysia region, and is on the banks of the Murray River. The current population is estimated at just over 30,000.Mildura is a major agricultural centre...
) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne
Sydney Swans
The Sydney Swans Football Club is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League . The club is based in Sydney, New South Wales. The club, founded in 1874, was known as the South Melbourne Football Club until it relocated to Sydney in 1982 to become the Sydney...
in the Victorian Football League
Australian Football League
The Australian Football League is both the governing body and the major professional competition in the sport of Australian rules football...
(VFL) during the early 1950s and also a former first-class cricket
First-class cricket
First-class cricket is a class of cricket that consists of matches of three or more days' scheduled duration, that are between two sides of eleven players and are officially adjudged first-class by virtue of the standard of the competing teams...
er for Victoria
Victorian Bushrangers
The Victorian cricket team, nicknamed the Bushrangers, is an Australian cricket team based in Melbourne, that represents the state of Victoria. It is administered by Cricket Victoria and draws its players from Melbourne's Premier Cricket competition...
.
Murray was a regular in the South Melbourne team for the 1951 and 1952 VFL seasons and received three Brownlow votes in the latter. In 1953 he struggled to keep his spot in the side and after managing just one senior game the following year, left the club and turned to cricket.
While handy with the bat, Murray was primarily a right-arm medium pace bowler and made four first-class appearances in the Sheffield Shield with Victoria, for a return of nine wickets at 36.88. All his matches came in the 1957/58 competition and in one, against Western Australia, he dismissed Test cricketers Ken Meuleman
Ken Meuleman
Kenneth Douglas Meuleman was an Australian cricketer who played in one Test in 1946....
and Barry Shepherd
Barry Shepherd
Barry Kenneth Shepherd was an Australian cricketer who played in 9 Tests from 1963 to 1965....
. Murray was also a prolific all-rounder for the Prahran Cricket Club, for whom he scored over 5000 runs and took a record 426 wickets.