Murray Wayne Creed (born 5 March 1979) is a South African

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er. Creed is a right-handed

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who bowls right-arm

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. He was born in Port Elizabeth,

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Biography

Creed made his first-class debut for Eastern Province B against

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in the 1997/98 season. Creed also played first-class cricket for the main Eastern Province team, playing 14 first-class matches for them from the 1998/99-2000/01 seasons, to add to the 4 he played for the B team in the 1997/98/1998/99 seasons. Additionally, he played a single first-class match for a Border and Eastern Province Combined XI and 3 matches for the South Africa Academy. In total he played 22 first-class matches, with his final one coming for Eastern Province against Free State in March 2001. In his 22 career first-class matches, he scored 728 runs at a

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of 25.10, with 3 half centuries and a high score of 72, while in the field he took 9 catches. With the ball he took 18 wickets at a bowling average of 49.38, with best figures of 4/30. It was for Eastern Province that he made his debut in

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during the 1998/99 Standard Bank League against

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. From the 1998/99 season to the 2000/01 season, he represented the Province in 30 List A matches, the last of which came against KwaZulu-Natal in February 2001. In his 30 matches for the Province, he scored 383 runs at an average of 17.40, with a high score of 47, while in the field he took 6 catches. With the ball he took 9 wickets at an average of 39.33, with best figures of 2/22. He later represented the

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in 3 List A matches. These against

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in the 1st round of the

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, Oxfordshire in the 1st round of the 2002 Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy which was played in 2002 and Cumberland in the 1st round of the

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which was played in 2002. In his 3 matches for the Board, he scored 129 runs at an average of 43.00, with a single half century high score of 77.List A Batting and Fielding For Each Team by Murray Creed
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