Brian Turner (25 July 1938,

Sheffield Sheffield is a city in South Yorkshire, England, situated south of Leeds and east of Manchester. The city is the administrative centre of the City of Sheffield. It is historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire and some of its so ...

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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 of three or more days scheduled duration between two sides of eleven players each and is officially adju ...

er, who played in two matches for

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

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Cricket Archive - Brian Turner
1938 births 2015 deaths Yorkshire cricketers English cricketers Cricketers from Sheffield English cricketers of 1946 to 1968 20th-century English sportsmen {{england-cricket-bio-1930s-stub