Murray Trevor Vernon was an Australia

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Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

n cricketer

Cricketer

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 who played 71 matches for Western Australia between 1955 and 1968. He also played two matches for a Western Australia Combined XI in 1962 and 1965. Vernon scored 4067 runs for Western Australia at an average

Batting average

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 of 34.76 with a highest score of 173, including eight centuries

Century (cricket)

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. He captained Western Australia in two matches in the 1962–63 season when Barry Shepherd

Barry Shepherd

Barry Kenneth Shepherd was an Australian cricketer who played in 9 Tests from 1963 to 1965....

 was unavailable, losing both. He also captained Melville in the Western Australian Grade Cricket

Western Australian Grade Cricket

Grade Cricket in Western Australia refers to the semi-professional cricket league played at a level below the first-class Western Warriors and colts teams. The competition is administered by the Western Australian Cricket Association...

competition.