William Murray-Wood was an English

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 cricket

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...

er. He played first-class cricket

First-class cricket

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 for 20 years, appearing for Oxford University and Kent

Kent County Cricket Club

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, between 1933 to 1953, and was Kent's captain for two years from 1952.

He was primarily a batsman, and scored 106 not out

Not out

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 on his first-class debut against Gloucestershire

Gloucestershire County Cricket Club

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. However, his early form was often patchy, and he only played occasionally.

His first-class career came to an abrupt end in 1953, when the Kent committee announced that he was being replaced as captain by Doug Wright

Doug Wright (cricketer)

Douglas Vivian Parson Wright, better known as Doug Wright was an English cricketer. A leg-spinner for Kent and England from 1932 to 1957 he took a record seven hat-tricks in first class cricket. He played for Kent for 25 years and was their first professional captain from late 1953 to 1956...

. He refuted this statement until the annual meeting the following February, when it was made clear the amateur players "would not continue under Murray-Wood's leadership".

He served with the Special Operations Executive

Special Operations Executive

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 during World War II

World War II

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. He died in Southwark

Southwark

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, London

London

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in 1968, aged 51.