Barry Scott (cricketer)

Robert Barrington "Barry" Scott (9 October 1916 – 6 April 1984) was an Australian cricketer. He played first-class cricket for Victoria between 1935 and 1940 and for New South Wales in 1940–41.^[1][2]

Barry Scott

Personal information
Full name	Robert Barrington Scott
Born	(1916-10-09)9 October 1916 Melbourne, Australia
Died	6 April 1984(1984-04-06) (aged 67) Melbourne, Australia
Batting	Left-handed
Bowling	Right-arm fast
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1935–36 to 1939–40	Victoria
1940–41	New South Wales
Career statistics
Competition First-class Matches 22 Runs scored 318 Batting average 13.82 100s/50s 0/0 Top score 49 Balls bowled 4374 Wickets 59 Bowling average 36.22 5 wickets in innings 3 10 wickets in match 1 Best bowling 7/33 Catches/stumpings 9/–
Source: Cricinfo, 30 October 2019

Cricket career

A tall, powerfully built right-arm fast bowler and hard-hitting left-handed lower-order batsman,^[3][4] Scott's best season was 1938–39, when he took 23 wickets at an average of 22.39, including figures of 7 for 33 and 5 for 46 when Victoria beat New South Wales in a Sheffield Shield match in Sydney.^[5] At the end of the 1939–40 season he was selected to open the bowling for The Rest against New South Wales.^[6] He was considered one of Australia's most promising young fast bowlers immediately before World War II.^[7][3]

Scott had a vigorous run-up and a peculiar bowling action. The Cricketer's Australian correspondent noted in early 1939: "He has a whirlwind arm action; just before delivery his left elbow points skyward while the right hand begins its sweep from the region of the left armpit, the general effect being heightened by a lock of black hair which flops, Hitler fashion, across his brow."^[8]

Life outside cricket

Scott was educated at Wesley College and at Melbourne University, where he studied Arts and Law.^[9][10] He married Yvonne Evans in Melbourne in May 1940.^[11]

He served in the Army in World War II as a private.^[12] After the war he became a prominent advertising executive in Melbourne.^[3] In the early 1950s he was an assistant trade commissioner in New York.^[10]