It was a match of 40 eight-ball overs a side, between Wellington and the touring MCC at the Basin Reserve in February 1971.

[7] After several seasons in the Plunket Shield, Murray was selected for New Zealand's non-Test tour of Australia in 1967-68, where he was the team's highest scorer, with 351 runs at an average of 43.87.

[13] Against the Australians in 1969-70, on a difficult pitch in the second unofficial Test at Lancaster Park, he scored a century, taking only 37 minutes over his second fifty.

[15] Murray is one of just three players to have taken a Test wicket without conceding a run, giving him a career bowling average of 0.00.

In the Third Test in Wellington in 1968 he bowled 6 balls and dismissed the Indian opener Syed Abid Ali.

[16] The New Zealand cricket writer Dick Brittenden said Murray "batted with delightful serenity", even in Test matches.

[17] Along with his contemporaries in the New Zealand team Bryan Yuile and Vic Pollard, Murray would not play cricket on Sundays for religious reasons.

[18] After the tour of England, India and Pakistan, which took five months from June to November 1969, Murray was glad to get back to his teaching job.

[23] Beginning with the 2008–09 season, the Bruce Murray Medal has been awarded annually for sportsmanship in Wellington club cricket.