TJ devoted to his fellow spinners
Chloe Saltau in the Age remembers Terry Jenner, who has died at 66, as a fierce defender of spin bowlers.
Brydon Coverdale
25-Feb-2013
Chloe Saltau in the Age remembers Terry Jenner, who has died at 66, as a fierce defender of spin bowlers.
Jenner did a nice line in exasperation, not with the spinners themselves but with those who failed to understand why they couldn't all be like his most famous pupil. He expressed his exasperation regularly, with the selectors who sent spinners through a revolving door to the Test team, with the states that wouldn't pick them, with the captains and coaches who wanted to turn them into robots.
In Adelaide's Advertiser, Jesper Fjeldstad describes visiting Jenner in his final months.
I remember vividly dropping in to have a quick chat and drop off some photos to Terry after our last interview and he looked spent. He didn't make it to the door, asking me to help myself in, and struggled to get up to shake hands.One of my daughters was with me, and that lit his eyes up. She was asked to show her bowling action, and soon enough Terry was on his feet, wanting to help her along and fan her interest. She won't forget it, even though she only just knew about Shane Warne, Jenner's most famous pupil.
Malcolm Conn, writing in the Daily Telegraph, writes that in many ways Jenner was Warne's creator as the greatest leg-spinner ever to play the game, but equally Warne was Jenner's saviour.
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