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Full name Alan Turner
Born July 23, 1950, Camperdown, Sydney, New South Wales
Current age 58 years 81 days
Major teams Australia,New South Wales
Batting style Left-hand bat
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
BF
SR
100
50
4s
6s
Ct
St
Tests
14
27
1
768
136
29.53
1516
50.65
1
3
79
2
15
0
ODIs
6
6
0
247
101
41.16
309
79.93
1
0
25
1
3
0
First-class
105
196
10
5744
156
30.88
7
31
80
0
List A
21
21
0
624
101
29.71
1
2
4
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
Tests
14
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
ODIs
6
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
First-class
105
16
10
1
1/6
10.00
3.75
16.0
0
0
List A
21
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Career statistics
Test debut
England v Australia at Birmingham, Jul 10-14, 1975 scorecard
Last Test
New Zealand v Australia at Auckland, Feb 25-Mar 1, 1977 scorecard
Test statistics
ODI debut
Australia v Pakistan at Leeds, Jun 7, 1975 scorecard
Last ODI
Australia v West Indies at Adelaide, Dec 20, 1975 scorecard
ODI statistics
First-class span
1968/69 - 1977/78
List A span
1969/70 - 1977/78
Profile
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.
Martin Williamson
