Peter Murray-Willis

Infobox cricketer biography
playername = Peter Murray-Willis


country = England
fullname = Peter Earnshaw Murray-Willis
dayofbirth = 14
monthofbirth = 7
yearofbirth = 1910
placeofbirth = Castle Bromwich, Warwickshire
countryofbirth = England
dayofdeath = 7
monthofdeath = 7
yearofdeath = 1995
placeofdeath = Uckfield Park, Sussex
countryofdeath = England
batting = Right-handed

club1 = Northamptonshire
year1 = 1938–1946
club2 = Worcestershire
year2 = 1935–1936

deliveries = balls
columns = 1
column1 = FC
matches1 = 29
runs1 = 467
bat avg1 = 10.37
100s/50s1 = 0/1
top score1 = 54
deliveries1 = 0
wickets1 = -
bowl avg1 = -
fivefor1 = -
tenfor1 = -
best bowling1 = -
catches/stumpings1 = 3/–

date = 7 September
year = 2007
source = http://cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Players/31/31634/31634.html

Peter Earnshaw Murray-Willis (born 14 July 1910 in Castle Bromwich) was an English cricketer. He played 29 times at first-class level either side of the Second World War, at first for Worcestershire and then for Northamptonshire.

Despite his short career, in 1946 he not only won his county cap for Northamptonshire, but also captained the county on 18 occasions. [cite web | url=http://cricketarchive.co.uk/cgi-bin/ask_the_player_oracle.cgi?playernumber=31634 | title=Player Oracle on CricketArchive | accessdate=2007-09-06 | publisher=CricketArchive] A "Wisden" writer much later called him a "somewhat miscast captain". [Obituary of Bill Barron, "Wisden Cricketers' Almanack" 2007.]

Murray-Willis passed fifty only once in his first-class career: making 54 for Northamptonshire against his former county of Worcestershire, in a high-scoring match at Kidderminster in July 1946. [cite web | url=http://cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Scorecards/17/17738.html | title=Worcestershire v Northamptonshire in 1946 | accessdate=2007-09-06 | publisher=CricketArchive]

References

External links

* [http://cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Players/31/31634/31634.html Statistical summary] from CricketArchive
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