Brian Turner (25 July 1938,

Sheffield Sheffield is a city in South Yorkshire, England, whose name derives from the River Sheaf which runs through it. The city serves as the administrative centre of the City of Sheffield. It is historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire a ...

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, England – 27 December 2015) was an English

first-class cricket First-class cricket, along with List A cricket and Twenty20 cricket, is one of the highest-standard forms of cricket. A first-class match is one of three or more days' scheduled duration between two sides of eleven players each and is officia ...

er, who played in two matches for

Yorkshire County Cricket Club Yorkshire County Cricket Club is one of 18 first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the historic county of Yorkshire. Yorkshire are the most successful team in English cricketing hi ...

in 1960 and 1961. Turner was a right arm medium pace swing bowler and right-handed batsman, who has lived for the bulk of his life

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, near

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, Yorkshire. He made his first-class debut against the

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in 1960, and the second in 1961 against

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. In those two games, Turner took four wickets at 11.75, with a best return of 2 for 9 against the South Africans, when he took 3 for 17 in the match. He scored seven runs in two completed innings, and took two catches. He also played cricket for Sheffield United Cricket Club in the Yorkshire League, and was the professional at Golcar C.C. in the Huddersfield League for several years - winning the league bowling award on many occasions. His father,

Cyril Turner Cyril Turner (11 January 1902 – 19 November 1968) was an English first-class cricketer, who played 200 first-class matches for Yorkshire County Cricket Club from 1925 to 1946, and one match for the Minor Counties in 1935. Born in Wombwe ...

, and uncle, Francis Turner, were also professional cricketers, who both played in the first-class game for Yorkshire.

References

External links

Cricket Archive - Brian Turner
1938 births 2015 deaths Yorkshire cricketers English cricketers Cricketers from Sheffield English cricketers of 1946 to 1968 {{england-cricket-bio-1930s-stub