Following his recovery from a knee injury, the skipper of the Scorchers and WA 50-over championship team returns to Durham for a third season.
After spending time in the IPL with the Lucknow Super Giants, Western Australia hitter Ashton Turner is returning to Durham to participate in the Vitality Blast for a third consecutive season.
Turner, 31, has not played since sustaining a knee injury during the BBL terminated his Australian domestic season in December. Nevertheless, he is presently playing in the IPL with LSG, even though their large overseas roster has prevented him from being selected for the starting XI.
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Nevertheless, having participated in 22 games for Durham over the previous two seasons and amassed 408 runs at 34.00 with a middle-order strike-rate of 153.38, he is expected to play a significant role in the Blast campaign.
Turner, one of Australia’s few T20 middle-order specialists, has enjoyed success as a player at Durham and Manchester Originals during the past two summers in England. With Turner’s old WA teammate Marcus North as Durham’s director of cricket and current coach Ryan Campbell, a former WA keeper-batter, both Durham and the Originals have significant ties to Western Australia. Simon Katich, a former captain of Turner’s Perth Scorchers, is the current coach of the Originals.
Durham values Turner’s leadership and middle-order hitting skills, so North expressed his happiness in having him return.
“It is great to news to have Ashton returning to Durham this season,” North stated. “In his two stints at the club, he has proven to possess essential leadership qualities and blends in perfectly with our squad.
“Having led the Scorchers and Western Australia to several titles in the recent past, he is a seasoned leader and run scorer. I’m excited to see him back at the club in May.”
Turner has led WA to three Marsh Cup (Australian domestic 50-over) championships and the Scorchers to two BBL crowns during the previous five years. His injury-related absence from the BBL significantly hindered the Scorchers’ chances of winning the BBL three-peat.
With his most recent international being against South Africa in a three-match T20I series last year, he has participated in nine ODIs and nineteen T20Is for Australia.
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