Murray Trevor Vernon (9 February 1937 – 16 April 2013) was an Australian

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who played regularly for Western Australia from the late 1950s to the late 1960s. Vernon scored 4067 runs for Western Australia at an average of 34.76 with a highest score of 173, including eight centuries. He captained Western Australia in two matches in the 1962–63 season when

Barry Shepherd Barry Kenneth Shepherd (23 April 1937 – 18 September 2001) was an Australian cricketer who played in nine Test matches between 1963 and 1965. Career Barry Shepherd was an outstanding junior sportsman in Australian rules football, hockey and ...

was unavailable, losing both. Born in Kondinin and growing up in South Perth, he also captained Melville in the Western Australian Grade Cricket competition. Vernon died in Perth in April 2013, after a short illness.Townsend, John (2013). "WA cricket mourns death of great pioneer Vernon", '' The Weekend West'', 19–21 April 2013.

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