You're comparing strike rates like they've always been the same - Turner was a one day genius, that was a different game in a different era - he, Astle and Crowe are certainties imo - forgot Chris Cairns, he's probably the one - and obviously a hugely superior bowler - anyway, like I said not too much thought - but I don't really give a toss what Turner's SR was, he was revolutionary in an era that was somewhat different - please don't tell me you'd pick someone like Guptill ahead of Glenn Turner? Or even Astle
Yes. I would.
Your ODI "genius" Turner only played a mere 41 matches.
He averaged 27 against Australia, 27 Pakistan and 28 West Indies.
He scored 3 centuries, one against East Africa - 179* and one against Sri Lanka in 1983. Sri Lanka got test status in 1982. He made 83* against them in 1979.
He decimated India in the mid 70's when Maden Lal, the medium bowler was the "strike seamer" and a lot of medium pacers and spinners tried to compete in Christchurch and Manchester. He never played them in India. Only his final match against India was an attack that included Kapil Dev, in 1979, when Turner batted at 4, and both openers made 50's. Turner made 43* in that match, to go with his 2 50's and a century on NZ and English pitches against a spin attack.
How exactly do you conclude that Turner was a ODI genius? A couple of big 50's against a England team heading home from a lost test series in Australia in 1983? Even those knocks only got his average to 32 against them. And they were his only 50's against England.
32 is not the stuff of a genius.
