Barry Scott (cricketer)

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]

Barry Scott

Personal information
Full name	Robert Barrington Scott
Born	(1916-10-09)9 October 1916 Melbourne, Australia
Died	6 April 1984(1984-04-06) (aged 67) Melbourne, Australia
Batting	Left-handed
Bowling	Right-arm fast
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1935-36 to 1939-40	Victoria
1940-41	New South Wales
Career statistics
Competition First-class Matches 22 Runs scored 318 Batting average 13.82 100s/50s 0/0 Top score 49 Balls bowled 4374 Wickets 59 Bowling average 36.22 5 wickets in innings 3 10 wickets in match 1 Best bowling 7/33 Catches/stumpings 9/–
Source: Cricinfo, 30 October 2019

Cricket career

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]

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

Scott 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

• List of Victoria first-class cricketers
• List of New South Wales representative cricketers

References

1. "Barry Scott". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 22 November 2015.
2. "Barry Scott". Cricket Archive. Retrieved 31 January 2017.
3. Jack Pollard, Australian Cricket: The Game and the Players, Hodder & Stoughton, Sydney, 1982, pp. 868–69.
4. "Halcombe Bowls Splendidly". Sunday Times: 2. 5 March 1939.
5. "New South Wales v Victoria 1938-39". Cricinfo. Retrieved 30 October 2019.
6. "New South Wales v The Rest 1939-40". Cricinfo. Retrieved 30 October 2019.
7. "War Will Interfere with Chances of These Bright Cricketers". Smith's Weekly: 6. 23 December 1939.
8. "Australian Ruminations", The Cricketer, Spring Annual 1939, p. 68.
9. Baillie, E. H. M. (1 February 1939). "Keenness Helps Fast Bowler". Sporting Globe: 9.
10. "Tails He Wins". The Age: 2. 9 March 1951.
11. "Cricketer Weds at Chapel". The Argus: 5. 20 May 1940.
12. "Scott, Robert Barrington". World War Two Nominal Roll. Retrieved 30 October 2019.

External links

• Barry Scott at ESPNcricinfo