John Turner (Minor Counties cricketer), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Minor Counties cricketer
Date of Birth: 02-Jan-1949
Place of Birth: Princes Risborough, England, United Kingdom
Date of Death: 13-Sep-2012
Profession: cricketer
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About John Turner (Minor Counties cricketer)
- John Bernard Turner (2 January 1949 – 13 September 2012) was an English cricketer.
- Turner was a right-handed batsman who bowled slow left-arm orthodox.
- He was born at Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire. Turner made his debut for Buckinghamshire in the 1968 Minor Counties Championship against Berkshire.
- Turner played Minor counties cricket for Buckinghamshire from 1968 to 1983, which included 151 Minor Counties Championship matches and a single MCCA Knockout Trophy match.
- In 1969, he made his List A debut for Buckinghamshire against Middlesex in the Gillette Cup.
- He played eight further List A matches for the county, the last coming against Suffolk in the 1979 Gillette Cup.
- In his nine List A appearances for the county, he scored 254 runs at a batting average of 31.75, with three half centuries and a high score of 88.
- This came against Kent in the 1972 Gillette Cup.He played the majority of his List A matches not for Buckinghamshire, but for the Minor Counties South and Minor Counties West teams, making eight and four appearances respectively.
- For Minor Counties South, he scored 126 runs at an average of 15.75, with a single half century high score of 56.
- In his career, Turner also made a single first-class appearance for a combined Minor Counties cricket team against the touring Pakistanis in 1974.
- In this match, he scored 21 runs in the Minor Counties first-innings before being dismissed by Asif Masood, while in their second-innings he scored a century, making 106 runs before being dismissed by the same bowler.
- This left him with a first-class batting average of 63.50.He died at Calne, Wiltshire, on 13 September 2012.
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