Murray George Webb is a respected New Zealand caricature artist. Based in Dunedin

Dunedin

Dunedin is the second-largest city in the South Island of New Zealand, and the principal city of the Otago Region. It is considered to be one of the four main urban centres of New Zealand for historic, cultural, and geographic reasons. Dunedin was the largest city by territorial land area until...

, his usual subjects are sports icons.

Before turning his hand to drawing, Webb played first-class cricket

First-class cricket

First-class cricket is a class of cricket that consists of matches of three or more days' scheduled duration, that are between two sides of eleven players and are officially adjudged first-class by virtue of the standard of the competing teams...

 for Otago and represented New Zealand

New Zealand cricket team

The New Zealand cricket team, nicknamed the Black Caps, are the national cricket team representing New Zealand. They played their first in 1930 against England in Christchurch, New Zealand, becoming the fifth country to play Test cricket. It took the team until 1955–56 to win a Test, against the...

 in three Test matches

Test cricket

Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket. Test matches are played between national representative teams with "Test status", as determined by the International Cricket Council , with four innings played between two teams of 11 players over a period of up to a maximum five days...

 from 1971 to 1974. His younger brother Richard

Richard Webb (cricketer)

Richard Webb is a former cricketer who played in three One Day Internationals for the New Zealand cricket team in 1983, principally as a fast-medium bowler. He played 25 matches of domestic first-class cricket for Otago from 1975/76 to 1983/84...

 was also a pace bowler who played for Otago; Richard also represented New Zealand, but as a one-day player.