Murray Fergus Muir (16 February 1928 – 5 October 2004) was a New Zealand cricketer. He played one first-class match for Otago during the 1949–50 season.
Muir was born at Dunedin in 1928.McCarron, Tony (2010). New Zealand Cricketers 1863/64–2010, p. 96. Cardiff: The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. (Available online at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 5 June 2023.) An off break bowler who played club cricket for the Grange club in Dunedin, he played for an Otago side against Southland in December 1949 before playing in his only first-class fixture later in the season. Against Canterbury at Carisbrook he did not take a wicket in five overs and recorded a duck in the only innings in which he batted.Murray Muir, CricketArchive. Retrieved 26 November 2023. A contemporary newspaper article in the Otago Daily Times, described him as a slow-medium bowler who "swings the ball very late and bowls an excellent off-break".Well balanced Grange team deserves honours, Otago Daily Times, issue 27042, 29 March 1949, p. 8. (Available online at Papers Past. Retrieved 26 November 2023.)
Muir married netball player and coach Lois Osborne in 1955; the couple went on to have three children. He died at Anderson's Bay in Dunedin in 2004 at the age of 76.
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