Chris Scott (cricketer)
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Chris Scott is a first class cricketer who played for 129 first class matches for Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club and Durham County Cricket Club between 1981 and 1996.
He was a wicket keeper batsman who famously dropped Brian Lara on 18 while playing against Warwickshire at Edgbaston in 1994 off the bowling of Simon Brown. Lara, who had earlier been bowled by an Anderson Cummins no-ball, went on to pummell 501 not out, the highest innings in first-class history. Scott's fumble cost 483 runs.
He scored two centuries of his own during his career, and took 283 catches and completed 17 stumpings.
