Murray Lawson McEwan (20 September 1936 – 4 April 1984) was a New Zealand sportsman who played provincial basketball and

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. McEwan was born at Dunedin in

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in 1936 and educated at Otago Boys' High School in the city. He worked in the banking industry.McCarron A (2010) ''New Zealand Cricketers 1863/64–2010'', p. 84. Cardiff: The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians.
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at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 2023-06-05.) A left-handed batsman, his only first-class cricket match came in the 1957–58 season in a January 1958 Plunket Shield match against Canterbury. He scored a total of nine runs in the match. Although he did not play again for the Otago side in first-class cricket, played regularly for Southland in 1960–61 and 1961–62, including in the Hawke Cup, and for the Wellington B side between 1964–65 and 1970–71.Murray McEwan
CricketArchive. Retrieved 2023-11-13. As well as cricket, he represented Southland at basketball. McEwan died at Ōtaki in Horowhenua in 1984 at the age of 47.Murray McEwan

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. Retrieved 2023-11-14. An obituary was published in that year's ''New Zealand Cricket Almanack''.

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