David Murray (cricketer), Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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former West Indian cricketer
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Place of Birth: Bridgetown, Saint Michael, Barbados
About David Murray (cricketer)
- David Anthony Murray (born 29 May 1950, Murray's Gap, Bridgetown, Barbados) is a former West Indian cricketer who played in nineteen Tests and ten ODIs from 1973 to 1982. Murray, a son of the great West Indian batsman Everton Weekes often courted controversy.
- a marijuana user from a young age, he was almost thrown out of the 1975–76 tour to Australia, only saved by the intervention of the sympathetic senior player Lance Gibbs.
- His drug habit was reportedly fuelled by a tour of India where he found drugs easily available: "A waiter at the team hotel started the whole thing.
- There was a market there, near the Gateway of India, where you used to get anything, good African marijuana, everything...
- it's a great place." By 1978 he had moved on to cocaine.Though he played as a wicketkeeper, Murray spent most of his international career as 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 now lives in poverty at his childhood home in Bridgetown.
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