Charles Turner

CHARLES THOMAS BYAS TURNER was born in Bathurst, in New South Wales, on the 16th November, 1862. He stands about 5 ft. 9 in., and bowls right hand, above medium pace, with a beautifully easy delivery, his hand not being very high at the moment the ball quits it. He has a fine break from the off, and bowls a wonderful yorker, but the great thing about him is that he makes the ball rise from the pitch faster perhaps than any bowler we have seen. He first appeared in Bathurst in December,1881, when against Shaw's team he took seventeen wickets for 69 runs. After that he steadily played club cricket until the November of 1886, when he met with surprising success against Shaw and Shrewsbury's team, taking six wickets for 20 runs, and seven wickets for 34 in the first match, and eight wickets for 80 runs on a good wicket in the game with the same eleven a month later. These performances were eclipsed by what he did in the January of 1887, when he took the wickets of Barnes, Barlow, Gunn, Briggs, Scotton, and Flowers for 15 runs. He had the largest share in winning, for New South Wales, the third and conquering match with Shaw's team, as he took eight wickets in the first innings for 32 runs, and six in the second innings for 27. His reputation was now fully established, and everything that he did was regarded with interest. His performances in England are fully described in these pages, and so is what he did against the latest English teams in Australia. It should be mentioned that for his club, the Carlton, at Sydney, he had the best bowling average for three seasons- 1885-6-7-and that in the Inter-Colonial match two years ago, at Melbourne, he did the hat trick, bowling Palmer, Horan, and Trumble with successive balls.