Barry Scott (cricketer)
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Melbourne, Australia
Melbourne, Australia
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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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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1935–36 to 1939–40 | Victoria | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1940–41 | New South Wales | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 30 October 2019 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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]
A 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]
Scott had a vigorous run-up and a 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]