[1] Musgrove played with the East Melbourne Cricket Club from 1879 to 1892, scoring 2899 runs at an average of 28, including several centuries.

The journalist and former Test cricketer Tom Horan described one of his innings as "an admirable, fantastic, faultless exhibition of batting.

Looking at Musgrove hitting a fiver, it seems the simplest thing in the world to go and do likewise, his manner of making the stroke is so easy, so devoid of anything like exercise of strength.

[7] He was the successful manager of the Australian team in England in 1896, "where his tact and courtesy contributed significantly to a harmonious tour".

[8] Musgrove wrote a series of memoirs for the Melbourne weekly Table Talk that appeared between 12 August 1926 and 25 November 1926 with the title "Stage Secrets".