Verdun Scott

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Verdun Scott New Zealand (NZ)
Batting style	Right-hand bat
Bowling type	Right-arm bowler
	Tests	First-class
Matches	10	80
Runs scored	458	5620
Batting average	28.62	49.73
100s/50s	-/3	16/23
Top score	84	204
Balls bowled	18	-
Wickets	-	10
Bowling average	-	27.10
5 wickets in innings	-	-
10 wickets in match	-	-
Best bowling	-	3/22
Catches/stumpings	7/-	42/-
Test debut: 29 March 1946 Last Test: 15 February 1952 Source: [1]

Verdun John Scott, born July 31, 1916 and died at Devonport, New Zealand on August 2, 1980), was a cricketer who played for Auckland and New Zealand.

A burly and upright right-handed opening batsman with little or no backlift, Scott started his cricketing career by scoring a century on first-class debut versus Canterbury in 1937-38. He made his Test debut against Australia in the match arranged after the Second World War in March 1946 and was top scorer in the first innings with 14 out of a total of just 42. New Zealand totalled just 96 runs in the two completed innings.

He was one of the more reliable batsmen on the New Zealand tour of England in 1949, and played in all four Tests. Though his top score in these games was only 60, he and left-handed opening partner Bert Sutcliffe gave the touring team a solid start in three matches, with partnerships of 122, 89 and 121. He later played in home Tests against England and the West Indies, reserving his best Test performance for his last game, when he made 84 out of New Zealand total of 160 in reply to the West Indies 546 for six wickets, a four-hour innings that took up enough time for bad light and rain to come to his side's rescue. In all, he played ten Tests for New Zealand.

Scott was a prolific scorer in Plunket Shield cricket and in all first-class cricket averaged only just under 50 runs per innings. He also played rugby league for New Zealand.