David Bell (sportsman)
David Lauder Bell (born 28 April 1949 in Warriston, Edinburgh) was a Scottish rugby union international and first-class cricketer.
Rugby union
Bell, a centre, was capped for Scotland's national rugby union team four times, all during the 1975 Five Nations Championship.[1] He also played for Watsonians.[2]
Cricket
At cricket he played three first-class matches with the Oxford University Cricket Club in 1971.[3] He didn't reappear on the first-class scene until 1979 when he represented Scotland against Sri Lanka's touring side, in Glasgow. A right-handed batsman, Bell finished his cricket career with 234 runs at 23.40 from his seven matches, with a highest score of 60. That innings, his only half century, came while playing for Scotland against Ireland at Dublin in 1981.[4]
References
Cricket
Rugby union
- Bath, Richard (ed.) The Scotland Rugby Miscellany (Vision Sports Publishing Ltd, 2007 ISBN 1905326246)
- Godwin, Terry Complete Who's Who of International Rugby (Cassell, 1987, ISBN 0713718382)
- David Bell on scrum dot com
Footnotes
- ↑ "David Bell". Scrum.com.
- ↑ Bath, p105
- ↑ "First-Class Matches played by David Bell". CricketArchive.
- ↑ "Ireland v Scotland 1981". CricketArchive.
See also
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