Sports Royal College. have been The part college of the has lifeblood produced of Queen’s runners, footballers and of course cricketers. In terms of cricket, it can boast of producing some of the best. Deryck Lance Murray is one of those. Born May 20 1943, Deryck Murray attended Queen’s Royal College from 1955 to 1962. He has had the honour of winning the Gerald Doorly Prize on three súccessive occasions from 1960. to 1962. While at the College, he played on both the football and cricket first eleven teams, and was its cricket captain.

Deryck Murray was first selected for the West Indies Cricket team while still at Queen’s Royal College and he went on to represent the West Indies in 62 Test matches between 1963 and 1980. He made his test debut for the West Indies against Eng- land in the 1st Test at Manchester in June 1963 at the age of 20 yrs. 17 days. A wicketkeeper-batsman, he was a record holder at one time with 24 dismissals in a Test series.

He first played for Trinidad and Tobago at the age of 17 and was captain of Trinidad and Tobago from 1976 to 1981. He was also the West Indies Vice-Captain, 1973-1980, when they won cricket’s first two World Cups in 1975 and 1979. He also captained the West Indies in the 1st Test vs. Australia at Brisbane in the 1979/80 series.

It may come as a surprise to some that Deryck was also a leg break spin bowler. His first-class bowling figures show that he bowled some 500 deliveries, 17 maidens, captured 5 wickets at a cost of 367 runs with an average of 73.4. His best bowling figures were 2 for 50.

Deryck’s cricketing career included playing for Nottingham- shire’s (1966-1969) and Warwickshire’s (1972-1976) County Cricket Teams, managing the Trinidad & Tobago and the West Indies cricket teams and as an ICC match referee in three appearances in 1992.

In both 1962 and 1975 he won the WITCO Sports Foundation’s Sportsman of the Year Award and was awarded the Chaconia Medal of the Order of the Trinity, Gold, in 1975 for Sport. In 1989 Deryck Lance Murray was inducted into, the WITCO Foundation Sports Hall of Fame and in 1990 was elected an Honorary Life Member of the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC).

Deryck graduated with BA (Hons.) in Industrial Economics from the University of Nottingham, England and read mics and History at Cambridge University (Jesus College) where he was awarded a cricket Blue and was Captain of Cambridge University in 1967. He served in the Foreign Service for Trinidad and Tobago in the period 1978 to 1989, spending the majority of this period at the United Nations in New York, where he was Vice Chairman of the Fifth Committee and Chairman of the Committee for Programme & Coordination.

He joined the financial services industry in England in the 1990’s and was the Affinity Marketing Manager of one of the largest insurance companies. On his return to Trinidad at the beginning of 2002, he took up a post at the Head Office of Guardian Life of the Caribbean where he is Vice-President Group & Affinity Business.

While in England, he served as member of the Board of Visi- tors (Sunbury Prison), Derbyshire (1993-1998); Rotary Club, Long Eaton, Nottingham (1994) and the Parish Church Council Breaston, Derbyshire (1994-1998).

He currently also assists in the development programmes of the Trinidad & Tobago Cricket Board and is a member of the Technical & Development Committee of the Trinidad& Tobago Football Federation.

Deryck and his wife Maureen were married in 1967 and have two sons, Michael and Nigel.