David Murray (Cricketer) Obituary

David Murray was a West Indian cricketer who played in nineteen Tests and ten ODIs from 1973 to 1982 as a wicketkeeper.

David was a marijuana user from a young age. His drug habit was reportedly fuelled by a tour of India where he found drugs easily available. By 1978, he had moved on to cocaine.

Murray spent most of his international career as an understudy to his Trinidadian counterpart, Deryck Murray, and was usurped in 1981 by Jeff Dujon of Jamaica.

Frustrated at his lack of opportunities, he threw in his lot with the West Indian rebel tours to South Africa and received a lifetime ban in 1983.

Murray lived in poverty at his childhood home in Bridgetown.