Terry Jenner
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| Batting style | Right-hand bat | |
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| Bowling type | Legbreak googly | |
| Tests | ODIs | |
| Matches | 9 | 1 |
| Runs scored | 208 | 12 |
| Batting average | 23.11 | 12.00 |
| 100s/50s | -/1 | -/- |
| Top score | 74 | 12 |
| Balls bowled | 1881 | 64 |
| Wickets | 24 | - |
| Bowling average | 31.20 | - |
| 5 wickets in innings | 1 | - |
| 10 wickets in match | - | n/a |
| Best bowling | 5/90 | - |
| Catches/stumpings | 5/- | -/- |
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As of 12 December 2005 |
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Terrence James Jenner (born September 8, 1944, Mount Lawley, Western Australia) is a former Australian cricketer who played in 9 Tests and one ODI from 1970 to 1975. He was primarily a leg spin bowler and was known for his attacking, loopy style of bowling, but he was also a handy lower-order batsman.[1] Now operating from Adelaide, South Australia, he is a leg spin coach to many players around the world. He has had a large influence on Shane Warne. He is also a radio cricket commentator for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.[1]
Jenner was first selected as an all-rounder in grade cricket in Perth at the age of 17, playing for Mount Lawley. After two years in grade cricket, he was selected to make his debut for Western Australia, primarily as a bowling all-rounder in the 1963-64 season. However, as the WACA Ground was not conducive to spin, and with English cricket team left-arm orthodox spinner, Tony Lock, playing in the team, Jenner rarely appeared in the XI, claiming only 34 wickets in four seasons. He moved to South Australia in 1967-68, playing at the more spin-friendly Adelaide Oval and became a regular member of the playing team. After three seasons there, he was selected for the 1970 tour to New Zealand, but did not play in the Test matches. He was finally able to make his debut in the 1970-71 Australian season in the First Test of the Ashes series at Brisbane. He did not however make a large impact, scoring 0 and 2 and taking 2/95, resulting in his immediate dismissal from the team. He was recalled for the Seventh, and final Test of the series at the spin-friendly Sydney Cricket Ground, where he was struck on the head by a short ball from John Snow. This resulted in crowd trouble which forced English captain Ray Illingworth to evacuate his players from the ground. He did however have a more profitable match, taking 4/81 and scoring 34 runs in two innings.[1][2]
He was then dropped from international cricket for a season, before being selected to tour the West Indies in 1972-73 playing the last four matches in a five Test series. He claimed thirteen wickets at 26.7, including career best figures of 5/90 in the fifth Test at Port of Spain, Trinidad, as well as making 38 with the bat without dismissal in the same game. Despite this performance, he was again overlooked for the entirety of the following season, playing next against England in the 1974/75 Australian season, in which he was selected for two matches. He had little success with the ball, taking two wickets at 48.5, but showed some of all-round skill by scoring a Test best of 74 at the Adelaide Oval. A solitary Test the following year in Australia against the West Indies, in which he took 2/90, was his last.[2]
Unable to hold down a regular position in the team, Jenner played a total of nine Tests in a four year period. He only played Test cricket outside of Australia on one tour, against the West Indies cricket team. He played one ODI, in which he scored 12 and bowled economically without success, conceding 28 runs in 8 overs.[1]
His first class career continued for a further two years until the end of the 1976/77 season, participating in a two-pronged South Australian attack with off-spinner Ashley Mallett. In total, his 131 first class matches yielded 389 wickets at an average of 32.2, including fourteen five wicket hauls and one ten wicket haul. He also regularly contributed with the bat, scoring ten half-centuries.[1]
In 1988 Jenner was sentenced to six and a half years in prison after stealing funds from his employer in order to repay gambling debts. He was however released after 18 months.[1][3]
He has since become a spin bowling coach at the Australian Cricket Academy in Adelaide.
[edit] Notes
- ^ a b c d e f Cashman, Richard (1997). The A-Z of Australian cricketers. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-550604-9.
- ^ a b Statsguru - TJ Jenner - Tests - Innings by innings list. Cricinfo.
- ^ Miller, Andrew; Williamson, Martin (2006-11-09). I fought the law. Cricinfo. Retrieved on November 9, 2006.
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| NAME | Jenner, Terrence James |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Jenner, Terry; Jenner, Terrence |
| SHORT DESCRIPTION | 20th century Australian cricket player and coach |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 8, 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mount Lawley, Western Australia |
| DATE OF DEATH | |
| PLACE OF DEATH | |
