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Turner & Ferris — 534 Wickets Between Them, 1888

Australia (touring England)

1888-08-31

On the 1888 Australian tour of England, Charlie Turner and JJ Ferris bowled essentially unchanged through innings after innings, taking 534 of the 663 wickets that fell to the Australians across the summer. Turner's 283 first-class wickets that season was a record for any bowler in any English summer. The pair were named in the inaugural Wisden Cricketers of the Year list in 1889.

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JJ Ferris — Turner's Left-Arm Partner and Two-Country Bowler

Australia / England (one tour)

1888-09-30

John James Ferris was the left-arm partner who shared the new ball with Charlie Turner through the great Australian bowling years of the late 1880s. He took 61 Test wickets in only 9 matches at 12.70 apiece — one of the best averages in Test history — was a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1889, and later qualified for England by residence and toured South Africa as an Englishman in 1891-92, taking 13 wickets in his only Test for his second country. He died of typhoid fever in Durban in 1900, aged 33.

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