Peter Murray-Willis

Peter Earnshaw Murray-Willis (14 July 1910 – 7 July 1995) was an English first-class cricketer. He played 29 times at first-class level either side of the Second World War, at first for Worcestershire and then for Northamptonshire.

Peter Murray-Willis

Personal information
Full name	Peter Earnshaw Murray-Willis
Born	(1910-07-14)14 July 1910 Castle Bromwich, Warwickshire, England
Died	7 July 1995(1995-07-07) (aged 84) Uckfield Park, Sussex, England
Batting	Right-handed
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1935–1936	Worcestershire
1938–1946	Northamptonshire
Career statistics
Competition First-class Matches 29 Runs scored 467 Batting average 10.37 100s/50s 0/1 Top score 54 Catches/stumpings 3/–
Source: CricketArchive, 7 September 2007

Despite his short career, in 1946 he not only won his county cap for Northamptonshire, but also captained the county on 18 occasions.^[1] A Wisden writer much later called him a "somewhat miscast captain".^[2]

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.^[3]

References

1. "Player Oracle on CricketArchive". CricketArchive. Retrieved 6 September 2007.
2. Obituary of Bill Barron, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 2007.
3. "Worcestershire v Northamptonshire in 1946". CricketArchive. Retrieved 6 September 2007.

External links

• Peter Murray-Willis at ESPNcricinfo