Alfred Scott (West Indian cricketer)
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| Full name | Alfred Homer Patrick Scott | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 29 July 1934 Spanish Town, St Catherine, Jamaica | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 28 April 2018 (aged 83) New York, U.S. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm leg-break | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Relations | Tommy Scott (father) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1952-53 to 1953-54 | Jamaica | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Alfred Homer Patrick Scott (29 July 1934 – 28 April 2018) was a West Indian cricketer who played in one Test in 1953.
Alfred Scott was a leg-break bowler and a lower-order batsman whose first-class cricket career was over before he was 20. In his third first-class match for Jamaica, against the Indian touring side in March 1953, at the age of 18, he took seven wickets with his leg-breaks and outperformed Alf Valentine, the established West Indies and Jamaica spinner.[1] He was then selected alongside Valentine for the fifth and final Test match of the series, which took place at Kingston immediately after the Jamaica game. On a batsman's pitch, Scott achieved no success at all, his 44 overs costing 140 runs.[2]
After this Test appearance, Scott played only one further first-class match: one of the two tour games for Jamaica against the MCC team in 1953-54, in which he took two wickets.
Scott moved to England to play league cricket, then later migrated to the United States. He died in New York on 28 April 2018, at the age of 83.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ "Jamaica v Indians 1952-53". Cricinfo. Retrieved 27 April 2019.
- ^ "5th Test, India tour of West Indies at Kingston, Mar 28 - Apr 4 1953". Cricinfo. Retrieved 27 April 2019.
- ^ "Alfred Scott". ESPN cricinfo. Retrieved 20 October 2024.
External links
[edit]- Alfred Scott at CricketArchive
- Alfred Scott at ESPNcricinfo