Charles Turner Australia (AUS)
Batting style	Right-hand bat
Bowling type	Right-arm fast-medium
	Tests	First-class
Matches	17	155
Runs scored	323	3,856
Batting average	11.53	15.54
100s/50s	0/0	2/11
Top score	29	103
Balls bowled	5,179	41,808
Wickets	101	993
Bowling average	16.53	14.25
5 wickets in innings	11	102
10 wickets in match	2	35
Best bowling	7/43	9/15
Catches/stumpings	8/0	85/0
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Charles Thomas Biass Turner (Bathurst, November 16, 1862 – January 1, 1944 in Manly, New South Wales, Australia) was a bowler who is regarded as one of the finest ever produced by Australia. Location of Bathurst in New South Wales (red) Bathurst is a regional centre in the state of New South Wales, Australia. ... November 16 is the 320th day of the year (321st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 45 days remaining. ... 1862 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... January 1 is the first day of the calendar year in both the Julian and Gregorian calendars. ... 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1944 calendar). ... Manly Beach Manly is a suburb in Local Government Area of Manly Council on Northern Beaches of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. ... Darren Gough bowling A bowler in the sport of cricket is usually a player whose speciality is bowling. ...

Many batsmen who played against him considered Turner without peer, a belief supported by his first-class record - even considering the fact that he played during a period of completely uncovered pitches and containing numerous unusually wet summers both at home and in England. He bowled right-hand medium pace with a relatively long and rhythmic run-up and a beautiful delivery that never aimed to exploit even his rather limited height of five feet nine inches (175 centimetres). He could vary his pace a great deal, and combined this with a perfect length and a vicious off-break that made him unplayable after rain. This unplayability on treacherous pitches earned him the nickname "Terror" Turner.

Among the most amazing feats Turner accomplished were:

• taking 283 wickets in the English season of 1888 for 11.27 runs each. This tally was 69 wickets ahead of Ted Peate's 1882 record, and has been bettered only by Tom Richardson in 1895 and Tich Freeman in 1928 and 1933.
• taking 314 wickets in all matches in 1888.
• taking 106 wickets in twelve matches in the Austrlian season of 1887/1888 - a record for any bowler in Australia
• taking 17 wickets for 50 runs against An England Eleven at Hastings in 1888. Of these 17, 14 were bowled, two lbw and one stumped - not a single catch was needed!.
• being the first Australian bowler to reach 100 wickets in Test matches.
• his 12 for 87 against England in his record season of 1887/1888 is still the best bowling analysis for a Test at the SCG.

Turner's early adventures in first-class cricket were unsuccessful, but in 1886/1887, when he moved from Bathurst to Sydney to become a banker, his skill developed to a remarkable degree with seventy first-class wickets at an amazing 7.68 runs each from just seven matches. In two games against Victoria he too eighteen wickets for 184 runs, but it was his excellence against Alfred Shaw's touring side that brought Turner fame amongst all English cricketers. In the first Test, after England were put in on a really sticky pitch, Turner was so unplayable he too six for fifteen, and in the second his combined figures were nine for 93. Edmund (Ted) Peate (born 2 March 1855 in Holbeck, Leeds, Yorkshire, England; died 11 March 1900, Newlay, Horsforth, Yorkshire, England) was a professional cricketer who played for Yorkshire and England. ... Tom Richardson (born August 11, 1870, Byfleet, Surrey; died July 2, 1912, Chambéry, France) was one of the greatest fast bowlers of all time and certainly the most prolific in terms of wicket-taking feats, largely owing to his amazing stamina and appetite for work, which allowed him to... Tich Freeman (Alfred Percy Freeman; born May 17, 1888; died January 28, 1965) was a Kent leg spin bowler and the only man to take 300 wickets in an English season. ... Shown within East Sussex Geography Status: Borough Region: South East England Historic County: Sussex Admin. ... Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket. ... The Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) (, ) is a cricket stadium in Sydney. ... This article is about the metropolitan area in Australia. ... For other uses, see Bank (disambiguation). ... Alfred Shaw (Burton Joyce Nottinghamshire, 29 August 1842 – 16 January 1907 in Gedling, Nottinghamshire) was a cricketer, who captained the English cricket team in four Test matches in 1881 to 1882, losing two and drawing two. ...

The following year, Turner, with the Australian pitches already notorious for being difficult after rain, carried all before him in the wet weather of a La Niña summer, his best performances outside the Test including: El Niño is also the nickname of Sergio García. ...

• 10 for 45 v Arthur Shrewsbury's XI;
• 16 for 79 in a second match v Arthur Shrewsbury's XI;
• 11 for 119 v G.F. Vernon's XI at the MCG;
• 5 for 17 in first innings for New South Wales v Victoria at the MCG.

In the appalling English summer of 1888, along with John Ferris, Turner accomplished so many notable performances as a bowler that it is impossible to list them all. However, it should be noted that he took ten for 53 in Australia's only win in the three-Test series at Lord's and took an amazing 9 for 15 versus An England Eleven at Stoke-on-Trent. He even showed ability as a batsman, scoring a maiden century at The Oval in the first game of the tour. Arthur Shrewsbury (11 April 1856_19 May 1903) was an English cricketer who was widely rated as competing with WG Grace for the accolade of being the best batsman of the 1880s. ... Mcg could refer to: Microgram (mcg or µg) Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) McG (Joseph McGinty Nichol) Muslim Consumer Group (MCG) Micronized Coffee Grounds (MCG) Magnetocardiography (MCG) This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title. ... John James Ferris (21 May 1867 - 17 November 1900), a left-arm swing bowler, was one of the few cricketers to play Test cricket for more than one country. ... The Media Centre at Lords Cricket Ground Lords Cricket Ground is a cricket ground in St Johns Wood in London. ... This page is about Stoke-on-Trent in England. ... The famous gasometers, which are now listed buildings. ...

After three astonishing seasons, Turner's career could only go downwards. With El Niño holding sway, the wickets in Australia in 1888/1889 were unresponsive and Turner took only 29 wickets in six games in 1888/1889, and even fewer the following season. However, still regarded as the best bowler available for English conditions, Turner did not disappoint the selectors in 1890, taking a slightly-less-imposing but still superb 179 first-class wickets (215 in all games) but being unable to break England's dominance of Test cricket at the time. Chart of ocean surface temperature anomaly [°C] during the last strong El Niño in December 1997 El Niño and La Niña (also written in English as El Nino and La Nina) are major temperature fluctuations in surface waters of the tropical Eastern Pacific Ocean. ...

In the following few Australian seasons, Turner continued to do well even if too little cricket was played for him to equal his records of the late 1880s. In the relatively dry English summer of 1893, Turner still was Australia's leading bowler with 148 wickets at 13.63, but the absence of Ferris and business commitments were slowly taking their toll on him. When England next toured in 1894/1895, Turner took his 100th wicket and had the unique (in Test cricket) distinction of getting no less a player than Bobby Peel stumped for a pair on a sticky wicket in Sydney. His record in this Test series was, actually, his best since 1888, but two years later his banking business required him to move to Queensland, where he was not able then to continue playing cricket apart from one match for his benefit as late as the 1909/1910 season - when he was 47 - that was not successful. Robert Peel (often known as Bobby Peel) was a Yorkshire and England cricket player: a left-arm spinner who ranks as one of the finest bowlers of the 1890s. ... Emblems: Faunal - Koala (Phascolarctos cinereus); Floral - Cooktown orchid (Dendrobium bigibbum); Bird - Brolga (Grus rubicunda); Aquatic - Barrier Reef Anemonefish (Amphiprion akindynos); Gem - Sapphire; Colour - Maroon Motto: Audax at Fidelis (Bold but Faithful) Slogan or Nickname: Sunshine State, Smart State Other Australian states and territories Capital Brisbane Government Const. ...

However, Turner continued to do service to the game in Australia as an administrator right through the early twentieth century. He commented, notably, on how greatly the game in Australia changed after the era in which he played due to a drier climate and improved pitch preparation (and also covering of pitches in Shield matches from the 1930s), which made Australian pitches almost impossible for bowlers of his type and led to reliance on leg spin. The Pura Cup (formerly known as the Sheffield Shield) is the domestic first class cricket competition in Australia. ... Leg spin is a type of spin bowling in the sport of cricket. ...

External links

• Test bowling data
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