Bruce Murray (sportsman)
| Bruce Murray | |||
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| Personal information | |||
| Full name | William Walter Bruce Murray | ||
| Date of birth | 4 September 1929 | ||
| Place of birth | Mildura, Victoria, Australia | ||
| Date of death | 16 April 2020 (aged 90) | ||
| Place of death | Queensland, Australia | ||
| Height | 178 cm (5 ft 10 in) | ||
| Weight | 70 kg (154 lb) | ||
| Playing career1 | |||
| Years | Club | Games (Goals) | |
| 1951–54 | South Melbourne | 44 (6) | |
|
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1954. | |||
| Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com | |||
William Walter Bruce Murray (4 September 1929 – 16 April 2020[1]) was an Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL) during the early 1950s. He also played as a first-class cricketer 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.[2] Murray was also a prolific all-rounder for the Prahran Cricket Club,[3] for whom he scored over 5000 runs at 24.0 and took a record 426 wickets at 19.5 over twenty seasons.[4]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Vale Bruce Murray". prahrancc.com.au. Prahran Cricket Club. Retrieved 6 May 2020.
- ^ "Western Australia v Victoria 1957/58". CricketArchive.
- ^ Booth, Lawrence (2021). Wisden Cricketers' Almanack. p. 301. ISBN 9781472975478.
- ^ "VCA 1st XI Career records 1889–90 to 2020–21, I-M" (PDF). Cricket Victoria. Retrieved 27 March 2023.
External links
[edit]- Bruce Murray's playing statistics from AFL Tables
- Cricinfo: Bruce Murray