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David Murray, wicketkeeper for the West Indies cricket team in the 1970s and 1980s, has died at the age of 72, Cricket West Indies Said Saturday.
According to Cricket West Indies, Barbados cricketers made their international debut in 1973 and have played in 19 Tests, 10 one-day internationals and 114 first-class matches. In the 1980s he consideration One of the best wicket keepers in the game.
Murray’s legacy, however, was tainted by his decision in 1983 to go on a “rebel tour” in South Africa. Murray, along with other West Indies cricket greats, received payment to travel to the apartheid country to play matches. South Africa against the South African team despite being banned from international competition by the International Cricket Council, the global governing body of cricket.
The West Indies Cricket Administration Board has issued a lifetime ban on anyone traveling to South Africa. was done.
A few years after the tour, Murray and his family faced deportation from Australia where his wife gave birth to a baby daughter for his role in the Rebel Tour. They weren’t welcome in the Caribbean either. told CNN in 2013.
“They didn’t want me back,” Murray said. “Politics got caught up in it”
In a statement of condolences, CWI President Ricky Skerritt referred to Murray’s legacy, but did not mention the ban or the controversy surrounding Murray’s career.
“He will be remembered as part of the great West Indies team that has dominated world cricket for over a decade,” said Skerritt. “David was a talented wicket-keeper and a stylish middle-order batsman. He loved the game of cricket and played it with a smile.”
Murray was also part of a family legacy of cricketing greatness. Ricky Hoyt also became a successful cricketer, representing the ‘A’ teams of Barbados and the West Indies as wicketkeeper and batsman.
“On behalf of Cricket West Indies, I would like to extend my deepest condolences to Ricky and David’s other members of family and friends,” Skerritt said in a statement.
