Turner is one of only two players (the other being Graeme Hick in 1988 also for Worcestershire) since the Second World War to have scored 1000 first-class runs in England before the end of May, a feat he achieved in 1973. Among the eight batsmen who have done this, only Turner and Donald Bradman did it while playing for a touring team. Christopher Martin-Jenkins described him as ‘unswervingly single-minded in his pursuit of runs’ and ‘unashamedly ambitious’. In 1973, Glenn Turner again was the highest run scorer in the English season, scoring a total of 2416 runs.