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Full name | Graeme John Turner | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia | 5 August 1964|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Left-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right-arm off break | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1984/85–1986/87 | Western Province B | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1984/85–1986/87 | Western Province | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1986/87–1987/88 | Northern Transvaal B | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1990–1991 | Oxford University | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1992/93 | Transvaal | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source:Cricinfo,7 September 2019 |
Graeme John Turner (born 5 August 1964) is a Rhodesian-born South African former cricketer.
Turner was born in August 1964 at Bulawayo,Southern Rhodesia,later moving to South Africa to study at university. He made his debut in first-class cricket for Western Province B against Boland in the 1984–85 Castle Bowl. His second first-class match,played in December 1984,came for the combined South African Universities against Transvaal. He played first-class cricket for Western Province and their B team until the 1986–87 season,making sixteen appearances. [1] He scored 678 runs in these matches,at an average of 24.21 and a high score of 69 not out. [2] It was for Western Province that he made his debut in List A one-day cricket in the 1984–85 Benson and Hedges Series against Transvaal,with Turner making two further List A appearances for Western Province in the 1986–87 Nissan Shield. [3] Toward the end of the 1986–87 Castle Bowl,Turner moved to Northern Transvaal B,where he represented the team in seven first-class matches until January 1988. [1] He scored 259 runs in these matches,at an average of 21.58 and a high score of 58. [2] He made a first-class appearance for the South African Defence Force cricket team against Natal in December 1988, [1] while conscripted in the South African Defence Force.
He travelled to England in 1989 to study at the University of Oxford,where he attended St Anne's College. [4] While studying at Oxford,he made sixteen first-class appearances for Oxford University in 1990–91,scoring 607 runs at an average of 38.93. He made his only first-class century while playing for Oxford,scoring 101 not out against Lancashire in 1991. [2] [5] With his right-arm off break bowling,he took 19 wickets for Oxford with best figures of 3 for 32. [6] He also made a single first-class appearance for the combined Oxford and Cambridge Universities cricket team against the touring New Zealanders in 1900, [1] where he featured alongside fellow South African and St Anne's College attendee Willem van der Merwe. In addition to playing first-class cricket while at Oxford,he also appeared in three List A matches for the Combined Universities cricket team in the 1991 Benson &Hedges Cup. [3] Returning to South Africa,he later made two first-class appearances for Transvaal in the 1993–93 Castle Cup. [1]
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