Glenn Turner ‘dazzling’
NZPA London The New Zealand batsman, Glenn Turner, helped his county, Worcestershire, .•‘bury” Lancashire’s Gillette Cup championship hopes yesterday. Turner —voted the man of the match—hit- 115 of his side’s 265, and won unstinting praise from British cricket writers. / , Paul Fitzpatrick, ■ th e cricket writer for the
“Guardian” wrote that the former New Zealand captain’s “wonderful talent and ability to improvise allowed him to rise far above the limitations of a sluggish wicket.” . - In tire “Daily Telegraph,” D. J. Rutnagur called the New Zealander’s century “dazzling.” “Sheer . class,” wrote Rutnagur, had enabled him to rise above the slow pitch, reaching his 50 off 22 overs with nine fours.
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