World ranking: 30
Last five seasons: 30-29-29-41-61
Date of birth: 06-03-72
Lives: Kidderminster, Worcestershire
Turned professional: 1991
Ranking tournament victories: 0
Last season’s prize money: £37,450
Career prize money: £184,885
Highest tournament break: 147

A quarter-final appearance in the 1997 Regal Welsh helped Terry Murphy break into the world’s top 32 players for the first time and he has managed to hold on to his position for four seasons now.

Murphy, who compiled a maximum 147 break against Robert Thallon during the Benson and Hedges Championship in 1993, was a member of the Northern Ireland team that reached the quarter-finals of the World Cup in 1996.

He has also represented his country in the last two Nations Cups.

The left-hander qualified for the televised stage of the Embassy World Championship in both 1998 and 1999 but missed out last season when he was beaten 10-5 by Iceland’s Kristan Helgason.