Richard Turner (Worcestershire cricketer)

Infobox cricketer biography
playername = Richard Turner


country = England
fullname = Richard Ernest Turner
dayofbirth = 4
monthofbirth = 5
yearofbirth = 1886
placeofbirth = Mitcham, Surrey
countryofbirth = England
dayofdeath = 16
monthofdeath = 3
yearofdeath = 1967
placeofdeath = Hastings, Sussex
countryofdeath = England
batting = Right-handed
bowling = Right arm medium

club1 = Worcestershire
year1 = 1909–1922

deliveries = balls
columns = 1
column1 = FC
matches1 = 52
runs1 = 1,010
bat avg1 = 11.47
100s/50s1 = 0/2
top score1 = 66
deliveries1 = 252
wickets1 = 4
bowl avg1 = 56.25
fivefor1 = 0
tenfor1 = 0
best bowling1 = 3-7
catches/stumpings1 = 13/0

date = 11 September
year = 2007
source = http://cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Players/33/33463/33463.html

Richard Ernest Turner (4 May 1886–16 March 1967) was an English cricketer who played 52 first-class games for Worcestershire either side of the First World War.

Turner made his debut against Kent at Amblecote on 5 July 1909; he scored 6 and 19 in an innings defeat. [cite web | url=http://cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Scorecards/7/7912.html | title=Worcestershire v Kent in 1909 | accessdate=2007-09-11 | publisher=CricketArchive] He made a further eight appearances that season, but did not reach 20 in any of them, ending the summer with an average of just 9.10.cite web | url=http://cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Players/33/33463/f_Batting_by_Season.html | title=First-class Batting and Fielding in Each Season by Richard Turner | accessdate=2007-09-11 | publisher=CricketArchive] In 1910 he did a little better, hitting 49 not out against Warwickshire at Birmingham, [cite web | url=http://cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Scorecards/8/8240.html | title=Warwickshire v Worcestershire in 1910 | accessdate=2007-09-11 | publisher=CricketArchive] but his best year was 1911, when he scored 463 runs at 15.43.This included his only two half-centuries, which were achieved in successive matches: 53 against Sussex at the end of May, [cite web | url=http://cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Scorecards/8/8405.html | title=Worcestershire v Sussex in 1911 | accessdate=2007-09-11 | publisher=CricketArchive] then 66 versus Warwickshire a week later. [cite web | url=http://cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Scorecards/8/8421.html | title=Worcestershire v Warwickshire in 1911 | accessdate=2007-09-11 | publisher=CricketArchive]

Though he had played 16 matches in 1911, Turner never again turned out more than eight times in a season.A single match in 1913 was his last for eight years, and although he returned for eight more games spread over 1921 and 1922, he could muster only 200 runs from 16 innings,with a highest score of 44 against Gloucestershire in June 1921; this was also the only occasion on which Turner acted as wicket-keeper. [cite web | url=http://cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Scorecards/10/10128.html | title=Worcestershire v Warwickshire in 1921 | accessdate=2007-09-11 | publisher=CricketArchive]

Turner was a strictly occasional bowler, only turning his arm over at all in the three seasons from 1909 to 1911. [cite web | url=http://cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Players/33/33463/f_Bowling_by_Season.html | title=First-class Bowling in Each Season by Richard Turner | accessdate=2007-09-11 | publisher=CricketArchive] Of his four first-class wickets, three came in the same innings in July 1911, when he accounted for Kent's Jack Hubble, Bill Fairservice and Charlie Blythe to finish with 3-7. [cite web | url=http://cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Scorecards/8/8503.html | title=Kent v Worcestershire in 1911 | accessdate=2007-09-11 | publisher=CricketArchive] Turner's other wicket had been that of Hampshire captain Edward Sprot in August 1909. [cite web | url=http://cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Scorecards/7/7983.html | title=Worcestershire v Hampshire in 1909 | accessdate=2007-09-11 | publisher=CricketArchive]

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* [http://cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Players/33/33463/33463.html Statistical summary] from CricketArchive
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