Francis Michael Turner
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* Mbe Mountains Community Forest, in Nigeria
* Mbe language, a language of Nigeria
* Mbe' language, language of Cameroon
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(8 August 1934 – 21 July 2015)
was an English cricketer active from 1954 to 1959 who played for
Leicestershire
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. He appeared in ten
first-class matches as a right-handed
batsman
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who
bowled
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Second, it is a method of dismissing a batsman, by hitting the wicket with a ball delivered by the bowler. (Th ...
leg break and googly. He scored 196
runs with a highest score of 28
* and took three
wicket
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* It is one of the two sets of three stumps and two bails at either end of the pitch. The fielding team's players can hit the wicket with the ball in a number of ways to get a batsman out. ...
s with a best performance of three for 56. Turner remained in cricket and worked for Leicestershire in administration. The club awarded him a benefit season in 1985. In 1994 he was awarded the MBE for services to cricket.
Mike Turner at CricketArchive
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References
1934 births
2015 deaths
Members of the Order of the British Empire
English cricketers
Leicestershire cricketers
English cricket administrators
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