[1] Six feet four inches tall,[2] Murray Webb was a fast bowler who played first-class cricket for Otago between 1969–70 and 1973–74 and represented New Zealand in three Test matches.
He played one match for New Zealand against the visiting Australian team, and Wisden noted the emergence of "a most promising fast bowler".
He toured the West Indies with New Zealand at the end of the season, but took only eight wickets in six matches, and none in the one Test he played.
[10] The Auckland psychology academic Barry Hughes has written: "Why do Murray Webb's caricatures of public figures look, paradoxically, more truthful than their photographs?
He helped save a toddler by gently tossing the child from the sinking ship to its mother in a lifeboat.