Allen Turner (24 October 1891 – 7 January 1961) was an English

cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...

er who played first-class cricket for

Derbyshire Derbyshire ( ) is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands, England. It includes much of the Peak District National Park, the southern end of the Pennine range of hills and part of the National Forest. It borders Greater Manchester to the nor ...

in 1920. Turner was born in

Heath, Derbyshire Heath is a village in the North East Derbyshire district of the English county of Derbyshire. The civil parish is called Heath and Holmewood. The population of this parish as taken at the 2011 Census was 2,953. Location Heath is immediately ad ...

. Turner made just two appearances for Derbyshire in the 1920 season, both in August. In his first match against Leicestershire, he took a wicket and a catch and scored two runs in both innings. In the second game against Nottinghamshire he took a total of 5 wickets with a first innings tally of 3 for 66 but did not score a run. Turner was a right-arm medium-fast bowler and took 6 wickets in his two matches with an average of 23 and a best performance of 3 for 66. He was a right-handed batsman and scored a total of 4 runs in 4 innings.Allen Turner at Cricket Archive
/ref> Turner died in

Holmewood Holmewood is a village in the North East Derbyshire district of Derbyshire, England. Historically a coal mining village, it has close links to the villages of Heath, North Wingfield and Temple Normanton. It is in the civil parish of Heath and ...

, at the age of 69.

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