Anton Murray was a tall and athletic cricketer: a useful middle or lower order right-handed batsman and a right-arm slow-to-medium-pace bowler who used a lot of variations of pace.

[2] Later in the same season, he took seven wickets for 30 runs, his best single-innings haul, in the match against Orange Free State at Bloemfontein.

If the outstanding player for South Africa was the spin bowler Hugh Tayfield, then many of the others, Murray included, contributed runs, high-class fielding and occasional wickets.

Ray Lindwall and Keith Miller were the main reasons for a first innings total of just 177, to which Murray, promoted to bat at No 7, contributed just 4.

When the Australians batted, Neil Harvey made 190 and Tayfield broke his left thumb which, though not his bowling hand, restricted his effectiveness.

Murray also proved useful with the ball in this Test, taking three for 30 and two for 19 in a total of 51 overs, as New Zealand lost by an innings.

[13] The second Test of the series on a very slow pitch at Auckland, was an anticlimax: Murray made six and took one wicket for 29 runs off 31 overs.

With the emergence of Neil Adcock as a fast bowler, South Africa relied less on spin, and Murray took only six wickets in the series.

[citation needed] Back in South Africa in the 1955–56 season, Murray made just three further appearances for Eastern Province in the Currie Cup, making 241 runs at an average of 40 and taking nine wickets.

In 1963, he was the founding headmaster of St. Alban's College, a progressive boarding school in Pretoria, and he remained as head there until he retired in 1982.