Neil Richard Keith Turk (born 28 April 1983,
Cuckfield
Cuckfield ( ) is a village and civil parish in the Mid Sussex District of West Sussex, England, on the southern slopes of the Weald. It lies south of London, north of Brighton, and east northeast of the county town of Chichester. Nearby town ...
) 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 st ...
er. He is a left-handed specialist batsman with occasional right-arm medium-pace bowling, as well as a
FIFA approved referee. Furthermore, Neil Turk studied Sports Science at Exeter University from 2001-2004.
He used to play club cricket for Wimbledon CC in the ECB Surrey Premier League, where he was 1st team captain.
Turk received an official berth in the
Sussex squad in 2005, though his debut for the county's second XI came in July 2002, and his debut for the first XI in September at
Essex
Essex () is a county in the East of England. One of the home counties, it borders Suffolk and Cambridgeshire to the north, the North Sea to the east, Hertfordshire to the west, Kent across the estuary of the River Thames to the south, and G ...
where he scored 36, which remained his highest
List A
List A cricket is a classification of the limited-overs (one-day) form of the sport of cricket, with games lasting up to eight hours. List A cricket includes One Day International (ODI) matches and various domestic competitions in which the numbe ...
score. At the end of
the 2006 season, Turk was released from Sussex, with his "perceived lack of future opportunity" cited as reason for his departure.
Sussex release trio
from Cricinfo, retrieved 2 October 2006 He played one first-class match, scoring 24 and bowling three wicketless overs against the touring Sri Lankans in 2006.
References
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1983 births
Living people
English cricketers
Sussex cricketers
People from Cuckfield
Sussex Cricket Board cricketers
Berkshire cricketers