Roy Scott

Roy Scott
Cricket information
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm medium
International information
National side
Career statistics
Competition Tests First-class
Matches 1 25
Runs scored 18 874
Batting average 18.00 24.97
100s/50s 0/0 0/6
Top score 18 86*
Balls bowled 138 5767
Wickets 1 94
Bowling average 74.00 25.97
5 wickets in innings 0 4
10 wickets in match 0 0
Best bowling 1/74 6/98
Catches/stumpings 0/- 13/-
Source: Cricinfo
The New Zealand Test team, Christchurch, March 1947. Roy Scott is second from the left in the middle row, between Bert Sutcliffe and Colin Snedden.

Roy Hamilton Scott (born 6 May 1917, Clyde, Otago and died 5 August 2005 at Christchurch) was a New Zealand cricketer who played in one Test in 1947.

Scott was a middle-order right-handed batsman and a medium-pace bowler who played first-class cricket for Canterbury from 1940-41 to 1954-55. He had a good Plunket Shield season in 1946-47, making 86 against Otago and 85 against Auckland and taking 6 for 99 against Otago in the three matches. His single Test came at the end of that season when New Zealand played one Test against England led by Walter Hammond. The match was ruined by rain; Scott scored 18 batting at number eight and, opening the bowling with Jack Cowie, took one wicket, that of Bill Edrich.

He was picked for the trial match for the 1949 New Zealand tour of England but, despite top-scoring in the New Zealand XI's second innings and taking four wickets, he was not picked for the tour, and retired after the match, re-emerging for one more first-class match in 1953-54 and a final one in 1954-55.

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