John Scott (umpire)

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John Drake (Jack) Scott (born 31 January 1888 at Sydney, New South Wales; died 7 April 1964 at Springback, South Australia, was an Australian cricket Test match umpire.

He umpired ten Test matches between 1936 and 1947. His first match was between Australia and England at Brisbane on 4 December to 9 December 1936, a match convincingly won by the visitors. Scott’s partner in this match, and for every match in the series, was George Borwick.

In the first series in Australia after World War II, also against England, Jack Scott and Borwick again stood in every Test match. Scott’s last match was at Sydney on 28 February to 5 March 1947.

Scott was also a right-arm fast bowler, representing New South Wales and (after 1925) South Australia in 59 matches between 1908/09 and 1928/29. In his early career, Johnnie Moyes compared him to Tibby Cotter, while Jack Pollard called him “a fiery, outspoken fast bowler with a long record of defying authority” who was barred for an entire Sydney grade season after a show of bad temper. As a player he was regarded as a “likeable larrikin”, but as an umpire earned a reputation for disciplining fast bowlers for bowling short rising deliveries – the type of bowling for which he had been known.

[edit] See also

• Australian Test Cricket Umpires
• List of test umpires

[edit] External links

• Player Profile: John Scott (umpire) from Cricinfo

[edit] References

• Moyes, A. G., ‘’Australian Cricket: A History’’, Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1959.
• Pollard, Jack, ‘’Australian Cricket: 1918-1948, The Bradman Years’’. Sydney, The Book Company, 1995. (ISBN 0-207-15596-8)
• Pollard, Jack, ‘’Australian Cricket: The game and the players’’. Sydney, Hodder & Stoughton, 1982. (ISBN 0-340-28796-9)