Ron Murray

Ronald McKenzie Murray (15 June 1927 – 8 April 1951) was a New Zealand cricketer who played first-class cricket for Wellington from 1947 to 1951.

Life and career Murray was born in Wellington and educated at Wellington College. He was a right-arm medium-pace bowler who specialised in out-swing, and a useful lower-order batsman who was "at his best in a crisis".

He was the second-most successful bowler in the Plunket Shield in 1947–48, taking 13 wickets at an average of 28.00. He was less successful in 1948–49, and although he took part in the trial matches, he failed to win a place in the New Zealand team for England in 1949.

Murray returned to form in 1949–50 and was again the second-most successful bowler in the Plunket Shield, taking 13 wickets at an average of 14.61, and helping Wellington win the championship for the first time since 1935–36. In the first match he took a hat-trick to reduce Otago's first innings from 116 for 2 to 116 for 5; Wellington won by seven wickets. In a senior club match in Wellington in 1949 he scored 103 and took 9 for 27 in a single afternoon.

Beginning with the 1951–52 season the Ron Murray Cup has been awarded annually to the leading wicket-taker in Wellington senior club cricket.