Robert Turner was a noted professional cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

er in the late 18th century. His career spanned the 1789 to 1799 seasons and he played mainly for Middlesex

Middlesex county cricket teams

Middlesex county cricket teams have been traced back to the 18th century but the county's involvement in cricket goes back much further than that. Given that the first definite mention of cricket anywhere in the world is dated c.1550 in Guildford, it is almost certain that the game had reached...

 and various representative sides, including MCC

Marylebone Cricket Club

Marylebone Cricket Club is a cricket club in London founded in 1787. Its influence and longevity now witness it as a private members' club dedicated to the development of cricket. It owns, and is based at, Lord's Cricket Ground in St John's Wood, London NW8. MCC was formerly the governing body of...

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Turner was primarily a bowler (style unknown) who made 34 known appearances in major cricket matches and took a known 50 wickets (i.e., bowled victims only). As a batsman he played 64 innings and scored a total of 318 runs with a highest score of 28. He made only 12 catches, which suggests he was an outfielder.

External sources

• CricketArchive record of Robert Turner

Further reading

• Arthur Haygarth
  Arthur Haygarth
  Arthur Haygarth was a noted amateur cricketer who became one of cricket's most significant historians....
  
  , Scores & Biographies, Volume 1 (1744-1826), Lillywhite, 1862