Published: 30/07/2010 12:26:43 | Modified: 30/07/2010 12:30:38
Author: Richard Latham | All Contributors
Somerset made to wait on Turner fitness
Mark Turner faces an anxious wait to learn whether he will be fit to represent Somerset in Friends Provident t20 Finals Day at the Rose Bowl on Saturday August 14.
The 25-year-old former Durham seamer twisted an ankle in bizarre fashion while fielding in the quarter-final victory over Northants at Taunton this week.
Turner hurt himself trying to take a boundary catch. He caught his heel on a small stage put in place just beyond the rope for some dancers to perform on during the cricket.
The awkward landing turned his left ankle and Turner left the ground on crutches. He will have a hospital scan tomorrow and is keeping fingers firmly crossed that the damage is not serious.
"The swelling has already gone down a bit, but I realise there is not much time before the finals," he said. "I should know more over the weekend.
"It was a pretty unlucky way to get injured. I have really been enjoying the Twenty20 experience, having been out of the first team in other competitions, so I would be very disappointed to miss out at the Rose Bowl."
Turner claimed the key wicket of David Sales in bowling two overs for eight runs against Northants. That took his tally of t20 victims for the season to 14.
While sometimes expensive, he has developed a knack of dismissing top order batsmen, which has kept him in Somerset's 20-over side at the expence of the more experienced Charl Willoughby and leg-spinner Max Waller.