Catalogue for the auction of
Cricket, Football & Sporting Memorabilia
To be held on Thursday, Friday, Saturday & Sunday
6th, 7th, 8th & 9th August 2026
Lot 276
Estimate: £70/100
William Lloyd Murdoch. New South Wales, Sussex, London County, England & Australia 1875-1904. Excellent sepia cabinet card photograph of Murdoch, head and shoulders, wearing cricket shirt. Cabinet card by London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company Ltd of London, with advertising to reverse, the card measures 4.25”x6.5”. Some wear to the right hand side of the image with minor light creasing and cracking to the image, some age toning to the extremities to the front and to the back otherwise in good condition. Rare. Previously sold at Phillips auction of August 1998
Murdoch played his first Test match for Australia, in the second Test ever played, against England at Melbourne in March/April 1877. He captained Australia in sixteen Tests from 1880 to 1890, this included four tours to England one of which, in 1882, gave rise to The Ashes. Murdoch scored both the first double century in Test cricket (211 against England in 1884) and the first triple century in Australian domestic cricket (321 against Victoria in 1882). In later years, he settled in England, playing county cricket for Sussex (1893 to 1899, as captain) and London County (1900 to 1904). In 1892, he toured South Africa with England and played in one Test match, making him one of the few cricketers to represent more than one international team.