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Andrew Joseph Murtagh (born 6 May 1949) is an Irish-born former English first-class cricketer. He is now a cricket biographer.

Andy Murtagh
Personal information
Full nameAndrew Joseph Murtagh
Born (1949-05-06) 6 May 1949 (age 73)
Dublin, Ireland
BattingRight-handed
BowlingRight-arm medium
RelationsTim Murtagh (nephew)
Chris Murtagh (nephew)
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1973–1977Hampshire
1973/74Eastern Province
Career statistics
Competition First-class List A
Matches 27 48
Runs scored 640 481
Batting average 15.23 16.58
100s/50s 0/1 0/1
Top score 65 65*
Balls bowled 714 570
Wickets 6 23
Bowling average 81.50 19.73
5 wickets in innings 0 1
10 wickets in match 0 0
Best bowling 2/46 5/33
Catches/stumpings 9/– 17/–
Source: Cricinfo, 23 December 2009

Cricket career


Andy Murtagh was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm medium pace. While reading English at Southampton University, he was spotted by Hampshire, making his first-class debut for the county against Gloucestershire in 1973. That same season he made his one-day debut against local rivals Sussex. After the end of the 1973 County Championship Murtagh played for Eastern Province in South Africa, representing them in a single first-class match against Natal.

Murtagh represented Hampshire until 1977, his final first-class match against Gloucestershire and his final one-day match against the same opposition at the United Services Recreation Ground in Portsmouth. He was more at home in the one-day form of the game. In his 48 one-day matches for Hampshire he took 23 wickets at an average of 19.73 with best figures of 5 for 33 against Yorkshire in 1977.[1] He batted mostly in the lower-middle order, with one first-class fifty and one one-day fifty to his name: both scores of 65, which helped Hampshire to victories.[2][3]


Later career


After he retired from professional cricket, Murtagh became an English teacher and cricket master at Malvern College. He stayed there for 30 years.[4]

Since his retirement from teaching, writing as Andrew Murtagh, he has written several biographies of cricketers:


Family


His nephews, Tim and Chris Murtagh, have played first-class and List-A cricket Tim for Surrey, Middlesex and Ireland, Chris for Surrey.


References


  1. "Yorkshire v Hampshire 1977". Cricinfo. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
  2. Wisden 1976, p. 434.
  3. Wisden 1977, p. 736.
  4. "About". andrewmurtagh.co.uk. Retrieved 8 May 2018.





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