Junior Murray
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Junior Randalph Murray is a West Indian cricket
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One of a handful of Grenadians to play Test cricket for the West Indies, Junior Murray was a wicketkeeper batsman. He started his domestic career as a batsman and only later developed into a keeper, although he never looked entirely confident with the gloves as he was arguably too tall and suffered in comparison with the dapper Jeff Dujon
. Nonetheless 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 over 100 Test dismissals. Murray often opened in One Day Internationals with varying degrees of success.
He played his domestic cricket for the Windward Islands
, 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 Guyana
. In 122 list A one day matches he scored 1,895 runs at 23.1 with one unbeaten hundred against Bermuda
in the Red Stripe Bowl.
Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
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One of a handful of Grenadians to play Test cricket for the West Indies, Junior Murray was a wicketkeeper batsman. He started his domestic career as a batsman and only later developed into a keeper, although he never looked entirely confident with the gloves as he was arguably too tall and suffered in comparison with the dapper Jeff Dujon
Jeff Dujon
Peter Jeffrey Leroy Dujon is a retired West Indian cricketer.He was the wicketkeeper for the West Indian cricket team of the 1980s, an athletic presence behind the stumps as well as a competent lower-order batsman....
. Nonetheless 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 over 100 Test dismissals. Murray often opened in One Day Internationals with varying degrees of success.
He played his domestic cricket for the Windward Islands
Windward Islands
The Windward Islands are the southern islands of the Lesser Antilles, within the West Indies.-Name and geography:The Windward Islands are called such because they were more windward to sailing ships arriving in the New World than the Leeward Islands, given that the prevailing trade winds in the...
, 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 Guyana
Guyana
Guyana , officially the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, previously the colony of British Guiana, is a sovereign state on the northern coast of South America that is culturally part of the Anglophone Caribbean. Guyana was a former colony of the Dutch and of the British...
. In 122 list A one day matches he scored 1,895 runs at 23.1 with one unbeaten hundred against Bermuda
Bermuda
Bermuda is a British overseas territory in the North Atlantic Ocean. Located off the east coast of the United States, its nearest landmass is Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, about to the west-northwest. It is about south of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, and northeast of Miami, Florida...
in the Red Stripe Bowl.