Terry Jenner

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Field	Value
name	Terry Jenner
image	Terry Jenner.jpg
country	Australia
fullname	Terrence James Jenner
birth_date
birth_place	Mount Lawley, Western Australia
death_date
death_place	Adelaide, South Australia
batting	Right-handed
bowling	Leg break
role	Bowler
international	true
testdebutdate	27 November
testdebutyear	1970
testdebutagainst	England
testcap	248
lasttestdate	28 November
lasttestyear	1975
lasttestagainst	West Indies
odidebutdate	1 January
odidebutyear	1975
odidebutagainst	England
oneodi	true
odicap	27
lastodidate	1 January
lastodiyear	1975
lastodiagainst	England
club1	Western Australia
year1	1963/64–1966/67
club2	South Australia
year2	1967/68–1976/77
club3	Cambridgeshire
year3	1971–1972
columns	4
column1	Test
matches1	9
runs1	208
bat avg1	23.11
100s/50s1	0/1
top score1	74
deliveries1	1,881
wickets1	24
bowl avg1	31.20
fivefor1	1
tenfor1	0
best bowling1	5/90
catches/stumpings1	5/–
column2	ODI
matches2	1
runs2	12
bat avg2	12.00
100s/50s2	0/0
top score2	12
deliveries2	64
wickets2	0
bowl avg2	–
fivefor2	–
tenfor2	–
best bowling2	–
catches/stumpings2	0/–
column3	FC
matches3	131
runs3	3,580
bat avg3	22.23
100s/50s3	0/11
top score3	86
deliveries3	26,802
wickets3	389
bowl avg3	32.18
fivefor3	14
tenfor3	1
best bowling3	7/84
catches/stumpings3	87/–
column4	LA
matches4	14
runs4	156
bat avg4	17.33
100s/50s4	0/0
top score4	34
deliveries4	752
wickets4	19
bowl avg4	24.68
fivefor4	0
tenfor4	0
best bowling4	4/54
catches/stumpings4	5/–
date	25 May
year	2011
source	https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/1/1359/1359.html CricketArchive
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Terrence James Jenner (8 September 1944 – 25 May 2011) was an Australian cricketer who played nine 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. In his latter years he was a leg-spin coach to many players around the world, and a great influence on Shane Warne. He was also a radio cricket commentator for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

Playing career

Early cricket

Jenner was born in Mount Lawley, Western Australia. He 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 England left-arm orthodox spinner Tony Lock playing in the team, Jenner rarely appeared in the XI, claiming only 34 wickets in four seasons.

Move to South Australia

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.

International cricket

He was finally able to make his debut in the 1970–71 Australian season in the First Test of the 1970–71 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 took 3/42 as England were dismissed on the first day for 184. In the Australian innings he ducked into a short ball from John Snow. This resulted in crowd trouble which forced English captain Ray Illingworth to evacuate his players from the ground. Jenner returned to bat at 235–8 and made a brave 30, last man out on 264 – giving Australia a lead of 80 runs – and took 1/39 in the second innings, but Australia lost the test and The Ashes.

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.

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. He played one ODI, in which he scored 12 and bowled economically without success, conceding 28 runs in 8 overs.

Final years

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.

Post-retirement

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.

He then became a spin-bowling coach at the Australian Cricket Academy in Adelaide. As a highly respected coach, he had a massive influence on the career of Shane Warne, and was a mentor to many other slow bowlers across the world.

Death

In April 2010 Jenner suffered a massive heart attack, and died at home on 25 May 2011. His funeral took place at the Adelaide Oval on 30 May 2011.

References

"Warne's spin mentor Terry Jenner dies". SportsNewsFirst.
Cashman, Richard. (1997). "The A-Z of Australian cricketers". Oxford University Press.
p105-106, John Snow, Cricket Rebel, Hamlyn, 1976
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Miller, Andrew. (2006-11-09). "I fought the law". [[ESPNcricinfo]].
[http://www.cricinfo.com/australia/content/current/story/455041.html Terry Jenner stable after heart attack], www.cricinfo.com, 7 April 2011. Retrieved 25 May 2010.

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