Alfred Scott | |
Fullname: | Alfred Homer Patrick Scott |
Birth Date: | 29 July 1934 |
Birth Place: | Spanish Town, St Catherine, Jamaica |
Family: | Tommy Scott (father) |
Batting: | Right-handed |
Bowling: | Right-arm leg-break |
Year1: | 1952-53 to 1953-54 |
Columns: | 2 |
Column1: | Tests |
Matches1: | 1 |
Runs1: | 5 |
Bat Avg1: | 5.00 |
100S/50S1: | 0/0 |
Top Score1: | 5 |
Deliveries1: | 264 |
Wickets1: | 0 |
Bowl Avg1: | - |
Fivefor1: | 0 |
Tenfor1: | 0 |
Best Bowling1: | – |
Catches/Stumpings1: | 0/0 |
Column2: | First-class |
Matches2: | 5 |
Runs2: | 38 |
Bat Avg2: | 12.66 |
100S/50S2: | 0/0 |
Top Score2: | 17* |
Deliveries2: | 1195 |
Wickets2: | 18 |
Bowl Avg2: | 33.00 |
Fivefor2: | 0 |
Tenfor2: | 0 |
Best Bowling2: | 4/46 |
Catches/Stumpings2: | 3/0 |
International: | true |
Country: | West Indies |
Testdebutdate: | 28 March |
Testdebutyear: | 1953 |
Lasttestdate: | 28 March |
Lasttestyear: | 1953 |
Source: | http://www.espncricinfo.com/westindies/content/player/53110.html Cricinfo |
Date: | 27 April 2019 |
Alfred Homer Patrick Scott (born 29 July 1934) is a former 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.
He moved to England to play league cricket, then later migrated to the United States.