alan turner Profile - ICC Profile, Age, Career Info & Stats.
alan turner is a cricketer(sportsman) from Australia. His ICC profile, age, career info & stats are given below.
Full Name
Alan Turner
Born
July 23, 1950, Camperdown, Sydney, New South Wales
Age
73 years old
Batting Style
Left hand Bat
Batting Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 14 | 6 | - | - |
Inn | 27 | 6 | - | - |
Runs | 768 | 247 | - | - |
Avg | 29.54 | 41.17 | - | - |
SR | 50.66 | 79.94 | - | - |
HS | 136 | 101 | - | - |
NO | 1 | 0 | - | - |
100s | 1 | 1 | - | - |
50s | 3 | 0 | - | - |
4s | 79 | 25 | - | - |
6s | 2 | 1 | - | - |
Bowling Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 14 | 6 | - | - |
Inn | - | - | - | - |
Balls | - | - | - | - |
Runs | - | - | - | - |
Wkt | - | - | - | - |
BBI | - | - | - | - |
BBM | - | - | - | - |
Eco | - | - | - | - |
Avg | - | - | - | - |
5W | - | - | - | - |
10W | - | - | - | - |
Teams he has played for:
- Australia
- New South Wales
Heres what CricBuzz says about him.
While the Ashes trip didn't go well, Turner showed enough composure during the home summer that followed, notching up a couple of fifties against West Indies before getting to his only Test century in the same series. Turner also got blooded into ODIs in the same year and made a fine start to his career with a century and three 40-plus scores from the six matches he played in. The runs came at a fairly good clip too but yet, he never played the format again. He continued for a while in Tests, doing moderately in the home summer of 1976 before being dropped in favor of a comeback for David Hookes who was running amok in the domestic circuit.
Unlike many Australian cricketers at that time, Turner chose to decline the offer for World Series Cricket. He had been a long-time employee of British American Tobacco, the company who were sponsoring the tournament but as the Australian Cricket Board weren't appreciative of the event, he decided not to. The WSC did deplete the national team considerably and that meant more opportunities for the likes of Turner who would otherwise remain on the fringes. However, he suffered a lean patch in 1977 and at the end of season, announced retirement much to everyone's shock. He was only 27 at that time. After retirement, he continued with grade cricket for a while before being a part of the New South Wales board. He later on became chairman of Benson and Hedges, a firm that sponsored Australian cricket for a long period.
By Hariprasad Sadanandan
Heres what ESPNcricinfo says about him.
Alan Turner was a stocky left-hand opening batsman who was steady rather than spectacular, and who never quite cracked it at the highest level. A superb cutter if given width, he was picked for the 1975 tour of England on the back of several good Sheffield Shield seasons, five years after his first trip, to New Zealand in 1969-70. He started well in England, making a big hundred at Canterbury, and played in the Australian side which lost the World Cup final - in a group match he smashed a hundred before lunch against Sri Lanka. He retained his pace for the Tests but made only 68 runs in five innings. The following winter he started the series against West Indies with a battling 81 but thereafter struggled before hammering his first - and only - Test hundred in the final match at Adelaide. He started the 1976-77 summer confidently, but his form fell away and he lost his place after touring New Zealand. After retiring he became an executive with Benson & Hedges, for many years the leading sponsor of Australian cricket.
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