Robert Barrington "Barry" Scott (9 October 1916 – 6 April 1984) was an Australian cricketer. He played first-class cricket for Victoria between 1935 and 1940 and for New South Wales in 1940-41.[1][2]
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| Full name | Robert Barrington Scott | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 9 October 1916 Melbourne, Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 6 April 1984 (aged 67) Melbourne, Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Left-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm fast | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1935-36 to 1939-40 | Victoria | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1940-41 | New South Wales | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Cricket career
editA tall, powerfully built right-arm fast bowler and hard-hitting left-handed lower-order batsman,[3][4] Scott's best season was 1938-39, when he took 23 wickets at an average of 22.39, including figures of 7 for 33 and 5 for 46 when Victoria beat New South Wales in a Sheffield Shield match in Sydney.[5] At the end of the 1939-40 season he was selected to open the bowling for The Rest against New South Wales.[6] He was considered one of Australia's most promising young fast bowlers immediately before World War II.[7][3]
He had a vigorous run-up and peculiar bowling action. The Cricketer's Australian correspondent noted in early 1939: "He has a whirlwind arm action; just before delivery his left elbow points skyward while the right hand begins its sweep from the region of the left armpit, the general effect being heightened by a lock of black hair which flops, Hitler fashion, across his brow."[8]
Life outside cricket
editScott was educated at Wesley College and at Melbourne University, where he studied Arts and Law.[9][10] He married Yvonne Evans in Melbourne in May 1940.[11]
He served in the Army in World War II as a private.[12] After the war he became a prominent advertising executive in Melbourne.[3] In the early 1950s he was an assistant trade commissioner in New York.[10]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Barry Scott". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 22 November 2015.
- ^ "Barry Scott". Cricket Archive. Retrieved 31 January 2017.
- ^ a b c Jack Pollard, Australian Cricket: The Game and the Players, Hodder & Stoughton, Sydney, 1982, pp. 868–69.
- ^ "Halcombe Bowls Splendidly". Sunday Times: 2. 5 March 1939.
- ^ "New South Wales v Victoria 1938-39". Cricinfo. Retrieved 30 October 2019.
- ^ "New South Wales v The Rest 1939-40". Cricinfo. Retrieved 30 October 2019.
- ^ "War Will Interfere with Chances of These Bright Cricketers". Smith's Weekly: 6. 23 December 1939.
- ^ "Australian Ruminations", The Cricketer, Spring Annual 1939, p. 68.
- ^ Baillie, E. H. M. (1 February 1939). "Keenness Helps Fast Bowler". Sporting Globe: 9.
- ^ a b "Tails He Wins". The Age: 2. 9 March 1951.
- ^ "Cricketer Weds at Chapel". The Argus: 5. 20 May 1940.
- ^ "Scott, Robert Barrington". World War Two Nominal Roll. Retrieved 30 October 2019.