- Murray Turner
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Murray Turner Personal information Full name Murray Stuart Turner Born 27 January 1964
Shaftesbury, Dorset, EnglandBatting style Right-handed Bowling style Right-arm fast-medium Role All-rounder Domestic team information Years Team 1984–86 Somerset First-class cricket debut 13 June 1984 Somerset v Lancashire Last First-class cricket 9 May 1986 Somerset v Glamorgan List A cricket debut 4 May 1985 Somerset v Minor Counties Last List A cricket 27 July 1986 Somerset v Lancashire Career statistics Competition First-class List A Matches 12 17 Runs scored 144 91 Batting average 18.00 13.00 100s/50s –/– –/– Top score 24* 22* Balls bowled 1379 653 Wickets 15 14 Bowling average 52.53 41.21 5 wickets in innings – – 10 wickets in match – – Best bowling 4/74 3/22 Catches/stumpings 2/– 2/– Source: CricketArchive, 4 March 2011 Murray Stuart Turner (born 27 January 1964) played first-class and List A cricket for Somerset from 1984 to 1986.[1] He was born at Shaftesbury, Dorset.
Turner was a lower-order right-handed batsman and a right-arm fast-medium bowler. Though born in Dorset, his club cricket was in the Taunton area and he appeared for Somerset's second eleven and its colts' team at the age of 17. He made his first-team debut in a single first-class match in the 1984 season, but then played fairly regularly in both the first-class and one-day formats in 1985, when Somerset had an unexpectedly poor season and finished at the bottom of the County Championship. In 10 first-class matches, Turner averaged nearly 24 with the bat, though that was in part due to half his 12 innings ending with him not out, and his highest score was an unbeaten 24 against Warwickshire in the match where Viv Richards made 322.[2] In the same game, Turner took four wickets for 74 runs, the only time he took more than two first-class wickets in an innings. He was no more successful in one-day matches, where in 13 outings he took only 10 wickets and made 68 runs. Wisden Cricketers' Almanack wrote: "Turner... had a few good days, but not enough to attract another contract."[3] But though no longer on the staff, Turner did play a little for Somerset in 1986, appearing in a single first-class fixture and four List A games, in one of which, against Glamorgan, he made an unbeaten 22, his best one-day score.[4]
After finishing in first-class cricket, Turner joined the Royal Air Force where, according to one account, "he found renewed scope for runs and, more significantly for a quickish bowler, wickets."[5]
References
- ^ "Murray Turner". www.cricketarchive.com. http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Players/3/3864/3864.html. Retrieved 2011-03-01.
- ^ "Scorecard: Somerset v Warwickshire". www.cricketarchive.com. 1985-06-01. http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/45/45958.html. Retrieved 2011-03-04.
- ^ "Somerset in 1985". Wisden Cricketers' Almanack (1986 ed.). Wisden. p. 517.
- ^ "Scorecard: Glamorgan v Somerset". www.cricketarchive.com. 1986-05-25. http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/47/47201.html. Retrieved 2011-03-04.
- ^ David Foot and Ivan Ponting. Somerset Cricket: A Post-War Who's Who (1993 ed.). Redcliffe Press. p. 114. ISBN 1 872971 23 7.
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