Andrew William Scott was an Australian

Australian people

Australian people, or simply Australians, are the citizens of Australia. Australia is a multi-ethnic nation, and therefore the term "Australian" is not a racial identifier. Aside from the Indigenous Australian population, nearly all Australians or their ancestors immigrated within the past 230 years...

 cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

er. Scott was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm fast-medium

Fast bowling

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. He was born in Geelong, Victoria

Victoria (Australia)

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Scott made his debut for Durham

Durham County Cricket Club

Durham County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh national cricket structure, representing the historic county of Durham. Its limited overs team is called the Durham Dynamos. Their kit colours are blue with yellow trim and the shirt sponsor was...

 against Hertfordshire

Hertfordshire County Cricket Club

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 in the 1985 Minor Counties Championship. He played Minor counties cricket for Durham only in the 1985 season

1985 English cricket season

The 1985 English cricket season saw England recover The Ashes against an Australian team that had still not recovered from the Packer affair.-Honors:*County Championship - Middlesex*NatWest Trophy - Essex*Sunday League - Essex...

, making 6 Minor Counties Championship appearances and 4 MCCA Knockout Trophy

MCCA Knockout Trophy

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 appearances. He made his List A debut against Derbyshire

Derbyshire County Cricket Club

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 in the 1985 NatWest Trophy

1985 NatWest Trophy

The 1985 NatWest Trophy was the 5th NatWest Trophy. It was an English limited overs county cricket tournament which was held between 3 July and 7 September 1985...

. He bowled 8 wicket-less overs

Over (cricket)

In the sport of cricket, an over is a set of six consecutive balls bowled in succession. An over is normally bowled by a single bowler. However, in the event of injury preventing a bowler from completing an over, it is completed by a teammate....

 for the cost of 29 runs in this match, while with the bat he wasn't called upon, with Durham winning against their first-class

First-class cricket

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 opponents by 7 wickets. He made a further List A appearance against Kent

Kent County Cricket Club

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 in the following round of the same competition. In this match, he took the wickets of Mark Benson

Mark Benson

Mark Richard Benson is a former International cricketer and a retired ICC Elite Panel cricket umpire - he played for England in one Test match and one One Day International in 1986....

 and Alan Knott

Alan Knott

Alan Philip Eric Knott is a former Kent County Cricket Club and English cricketer, as a wicket-keeper-batsman....

 for the cost of 45 runs from 10 overs, while with the bat he was dismissed for 7 runs by Derek Underwood

Derek Underwood

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, with Kent winning by 79 runs.

He died in Corio

Corio, Victoria

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, Victoria on 3 September 2006.

External links

• Andrew Scott at ESPNcricinfo
• Andrew Scott at CricketArchive
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