Full name Andrew Joseph Murtagh 1973–1977 Hampshire Batting style Right-handed Name Andy Murtagh | Bowling style Right-arm medium Role Cricket Player 1973/1974 Eastern Province | |
Born 6 May 1949 (age 74) ( 1949-05-06 ) Dublin, Ireland | ||
Andrew Joseph "Andy" Murtagh (born 6 May 1949, Dublin) is an Irish born-retired English cricketer. Murtagh was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm medium pace.
Murtagh represented Hampshire, making his first-class debut against Gloucestershire in 1973. That same season Murtagh made his one-day debut against local rivals Sussex.
After the end of the 1973 County Championship Murtagh signed for Eastern Province in South Africa. He represented them in a single first-class match against Natal.
Murtagh represented the club until 1977, with 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.
Murtagh was more at home in the one-day form of the game. In his 48 one-day matches for Hampshire Murtagh took 23 wickets at an average of 19.73 with best figures of 5-33. Murtagh batted mostly in the lower-middle order, with one first-class fifty and one one-day fifty to his name: both scores of 65. His bowling in first-class cricket yielded 6 wickets at an average of 81.50.
He has written two cricket biographies: A Remarkable Man: The Story of George Chesterton (2012) and Touched by Greatness: The Story of Tom Graveney, England's Much Loved Cricketer (2014).
Family
His nephews, Tim and Chris Murtagh, have both played first-class and List-A cricket – Tim for Surrey, Middlesex and Ireland, Chris for Surrey.