Andy Murtagh

Andrew Joseph "Andy" Murtagh (born 6 May 1949, Dublin) is an Irish-born former English first-class 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).

His nephews, Tim and Chris Murtagh, have both played first-class and List-A cricket – Tim for Surrey, Middlesex and Ireland, Chris for Surrey.