John Turner (cricketer, born 1863), Date of Birth, Date of Death
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British cricketer
Date of Birth: 10-Apr-1863
Date of Death: 23-Jul-1924
Profession: cricketer
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
About John Turner (cricketer, born 1863)
- John Alfred Turner (10 April 1863 – 23 July 1924) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Cambridge University, the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) and other amateur sides between 1883 and 1890.
- He was born at Leicester and died at Roehampton in London. Turner was the son of Luke Turner, a manufacturer of elastic webbing in Leicester whose factory is now a listed building.
- He was educated at Uppingham School and at Trinity College, Cambridge.
- At both Uppingham and Cambridge, Turner played cricket as a right-handed middle-order batsman – occasionally used as an opener – and a right-arm fast bowler, rarely used as one of the main bowlers by his teams.
- Without ever achieving much in the matches themselves, he was picked for the University Match against Oxford University in each of his four seasons at Cambridge.
- His best performances came in 1885 and 1886.
- Against a scratch side raised by A.
- J.
- Webbe in 1885, he scored an unbeaten 109.
- The following year, against another scratch side, this time raised by C.
- I.
- Thornton, he made a second innings 174 which was instrumental in enabling Cambridge to win the match after being made to follow on.
- The innings made Turner's reputation, and he was selected for the Gentlemen v Players match at The Oval after the university term was over, though he had no success.
- At the end of both the 1885 and 1886 English cricket seasons, Turner joined in a tour of North America organised by the Devonian amateur Ned Sanders, and on each of these tours there were two first-class matches; Turner's best bowling figures of four wickets for 46 runs (in 50 four-ball overs) came in a game against a "Gentlemen of Philadelphia" side on the 1885 tour.
- After leaving Cambridge University in 1886, Turner played only a couple of further first-class matches, though he appeared in minor matches for Leicestershire (not then a first-class team) through to 1892 and for the I Zingari amateur side to 1894.Turner graduated from Cambridge University with a Bachelor of Laws (LlB) degree, and joined the Inner Temple.
- He was called to the bar and practised as a barrister on the Midland Circuit.
- His address at the time of his death in 1924 was in Knightsbridge, London, though he died in The Priory, Roehampton.
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