Turner’s feat lauded

Press, 31 May 1982, Page 6

Turner’s feat lauded

British Sunday newspapers lauded Glenn Turner’s feat of a hundred cricket centuries with the "Observer” heading its story over four columns: ‘.‘Turner the Old Master,” Describing him as “the plodder who became a plunderer,” it said: “In his early years, Turner admits that he didn’t do much with the ball apart from having his eyes on it. “He pushed, prodded and dedicated himself to survival. After all he had to make sufficient runs, however slowly, for Worcestershire to want to keep him.” But it said: “Now that he has reached his landmark, the once-cautious New Zealander can be hailed and accepted as Turner the Old Master.” Norman Harris in the "Sunday Times” under the heading “Glenn and tonic,” said: “Turner has always seemed to respond to the challenge of records, and it was as if a recent series of

low scores had merely marked a period of waiting so that, when conditions were right, the achievement could be spectacular. It certainly was.” Andy Wilson, in the “Sun- ■ day Telegraph,” said: “Throughout his innings there were only two optimistic lbw appeals, three edged shots and two difficult missed'catches. Otherwise he hit the ball majestically in the middle of the bat.” Turner’s innings of 311 not out is the highest ever in the county championship and the first time a batsman has scored 300 runs in a day in England since 1949 when Jack Robertson hit 331 not out for Middlesex on the same ground. The last triple century in England was John Edrich’s 310 not out against New Zealand, at Leeds in 1965. and the last in the championship was Raman Subb Row’s 300 for Northamptonshire against Surrey, at The Oval in 1958.