Cricketer Tommy Scott

Tommy Scott

Personal information
Full name	Oscar Charles Scott
Born	(1892-08-14)14 August 1892 Kingston, Jamaica
Died	15 June 1961(1961-06-15) (aged 68) Kingston, Jamaica
Nickname	Tommy
Batting	Right-handed
Bowling	Leg break
Relations	Alfred Scott (son)
International information
National side	West Indies
Test debut (cap 13)	21 July 1928 v England
Last Test	27 February 1931 v Australia
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1910–1935	Jamaica
Career statistics
Competition Tests First-class Matches 8 45 Runs scored 171 1,317 Batting average 17.10 24.38 100s/50s 0/0 0/9 Top score 35 94 Balls bowled 1,405 9,706 Wickets 22 182 Bowling average 42.04 30.52 5 wickets in innings 1 14 10 wickets in match 0 5 Best bowling 5/266 8/67 Catches/stumpings 0/– 14/–
Source: Cricket Archive, 26 October 2010

Scott was born in Franklyn Town, Kingston, Jamaica. A leg-spinner and lower-order batsman, he took 11 for 138 for Jamaica against the English team in 1910-11 on his first-class debut at the age of 18. His best innings figures were 8 for 67 (12 for 132 in the match) in Jamaica's innings victory over L. H. Tennyson's XI in 1927–28. He played in eight Tests for the West Indies, including all five in the tour of Australia in 1930–31, when he finished the Australian first innings in the First Test by taking four wickets in nine deliveries without cost.

Scott holds the record for the most runs conceded by a bowler in a Test. His match figures of 9 for 374, against England at Kingston in 1929–30, included a first innings bowling analysis of 80.2 overs, 13 maidens, 266 runs for 5 wickets, as England amassed 849 in a timeless Test. The Australian bowler Jason Krejza conceded 358 in the Fourth Test between Australia and India in 2008–09.

Scott died in Kingston at the age of 68. His son Alfred, also a leg-spinner, played one Test in 1953.