David Turner (cricketer)
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David Roy Turner is a former English first-class
cricket
er for Hampshire
. He played 426 games between 1966 and 1989, making 19005 runs at a batting average
of 30.55 with 28 hundreds.
Turner was part of the Hampshire side which won the County Championship
in 1973, only their second ever title. In a side featuring Gordon Greenidge
and Barry Richards, Turner was a solid left-handed batsman and he scored 1000 runs in a season on 9 occasions.
First-class cricket
First-class cricket is a class of cricket that consists of matches of three or more days' scheduled duration, that are between two sides of eleven players and are officially adjudged first-class by virtue of the standard of the competing teams...
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Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
er for Hampshire
Hampshire County Cricket Club
Hampshire County Cricket Club represents the historic county of Hampshire in cricket's County Championship. The club was founded in 1863 as a successor to the Hampshire county cricket teams and has played at the Antelope Ground from then until 1885, before moving to the County Ground where it...
. He played 426 games between 1966 and 1989, making 19005 runs at a batting average
Batting average
Batting average is a statistic in both cricket and baseball that measures the performance of cricket batsmen and baseball hitters. The two statistics are related in that baseball averages are directly descended from the concept of cricket averages.- Cricket :...
of 30.55 with 28 hundreds.
Turner was part of the Hampshire side which won the County Championship
County Championship
The County Championship is the domestic first-class cricket competition in England and Wales...
in 1973, only their second ever title. In a side featuring Gordon Greenidge
Gordon Greenidge
Cuthbert Gordon Greenidge MBE is a former member of the West Indies cricket team.Greenidge was an opening batsman for the West Indies. He began his Test career against India at M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore in 1974 and continued playing internationally until 1991. He was half of the West...
and Barry Richards, Turner was a solid left-handed batsman and he scored 1000 runs in a season on 9 occasions.