Murray John Bennett was born on 6 October 1956 and is a former Australian cricketer who played in three Test matches and eight One Day Internationals in 1984 and 1985.
34 Facts About Murray Bennett
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Murray Bennett took six wickets at 12.66 but failed to make any impact with the bat, scoring 19 runs at 4.75.
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Murray Bennett scored an unbeaten 30 in a high-scoring draw.
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Murray Bennett went wicketless in the next match against South Australia, but did score an unbeaten 59, his maiden-first-class fifty.
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Murray Bennett made 29 in the lower-order in the run-chase, but was unable to prevent a 26-run defeat.
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Murray Bennett's victims included Dav Whatmore and Dean Jones, removing both twice.
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New South Wales made the Shield final and Murray Bennett was retained in spite of his modest late-season form.
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Murray Bennett's state batted first and contributed only in a total of 271.
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Murray Bennett bowled economically, but was unable to take a wicket, conceding 50 runs from 29 overs as the Western Australians replied.
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Murray Bennett was against wicketless, conceding 39 runs from 22 overs, but his colleagues were able to deliver with the ball and New South Wales won by 54 runs.
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Murray Bennett ended his debut season with 38 wickets at 28.26 and 356 runs at 32.36.
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Murray Bennett played in three one-dayers for his state taking three wickets at 30.03 at an economy rate of 3.03.
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Murray Bennett was rewarded with selection in a Young Australia team for a month-long tour of Zimbabwe.
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Murray Bennett continued to struggle in limited-overs cricket the following Australian season.
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Murray Bennett otherwise did not take more than two wickets in an innings and ended with 20 wickets at 36.55 and 202 runs at 25.25.
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Murray Bennett started relatively slowly, taking 12 wickets in his first five innings with the ball.
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Murray Bennett took 83 wickets at 10.14 and scored 716 runs at 42.11.
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Murray Bennett was not required to bat as the Australians completed a six-wicket victory.
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Murray Bennett's victims were Gus Logie and the leading batsmen in world cricket at the time, Viv Richards.
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The fourth Test in Melbourne saw Murray Bennett make his Test debut over the Christmas holiday period.
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Murray Bennett's effort was not enough to stop the West Indies from reaching their target of 241 with seven wickets and more than five overs in hand as they scored quickly from his colleagues.
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Murray Bennett batted for the first time in ODIs and scored three as Australia were dismissed for 191.
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Murray Bennett was then attacked by the tourists, who took 21 runs from his three overs en route to a five-wicket win with more than 12 overs in hand.
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The series proceeded back to Sydney for the next match, but Murray Bennett had no success on his home turf as the West Indies took 40 runs from his six overs and completed another five-wicket win.
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Murray Bennett ended the ODI campaign with two wickets at 88.00 and an economy rate of 4.63.
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Murray Bennett returned to state duty and helped New South Wales complete their second Shield title in three seasons.
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Murray Bennett was recalled to the limited-overs team and played his final 2 ODIs in the Four-Nations Cup in Sharjah.
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Australia found their low run-chase to be difficult and Murray Bennett came out in the closing stages, only to run out for a duck.
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Murray Bennett was selected for the 1985 Ashes tour to England, but took only three wickets in four first-class matches of the Tests and was overlooked for the opening Ashes match.
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Murray Bennett then played a prominent role in consecutive Shield victories.
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Murray Bennett ended the season with 32 wickets at 27.40 and 300 runs at 33.33.
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Murray Bennett was selected for only one limited-overs match; he had no success, conceding 34 runs from five overs without taking a wicket.
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Murray Bennett finished his first-class career with 1437 runs at 23.95 including four fifties and 157 wickets at 30.92.
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Murray Bennett was known to be selling insurance in 2007.