David Bell (sportsman)
Encyclopedia
David Lauder Bell was a Scottish
rugby union
international and first-class cricket
er.
four times, all during the 1975 Five Nations Championship
. He also played for Watsonians.
in 1971. 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.
Scottish people
The Scottish people , or Scots, are a nation and ethnic group native to Scotland. Historically they emerged from an amalgamation of the Picts and Gaels, incorporating neighbouring Britons to the south as well as invading Germanic peoples such as the Anglo-Saxons and the Norse.In modern use,...
rugby union
Rugby union
Rugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand...
international and first-class cricket
First-class cricket
First-class cricket is a class of cricket that consists of matches of three or more days' scheduled duration, that are between two sides of eleven players and are officially adjudged first-class by virtue of the standard of the competing teams...
er.
Rugby union
Bell, a centre, was capped for Scotland's national rugby union teamScotland national rugby union team
The Scotland national rugby union team represent Scotland in international rugby union. Rugby union in Scotland is administered by the Scottish Rugby Union. The Scotland rugby union team is currently ranked eighth in the IRB World Rankings as of 19 September 2011...
four times, all during the 1975 Five Nations Championship
1975 Five Nations Championship
The 1975 Five Nations Championship was the forty-sixth series of the rugby union Five Nations Championship. Including the previous incarnations as the Home Nations and Five Nations, this was the eighty-first series of the northern hemisphere rugby union championship. Ten matches were played between...
. He also played for Watsonians.
Cricket
At cricket he played three first-class matches with the Oxford University Cricket ClubOxford University Cricket Club
Oxford University Cricket Club is a first-class cricket team, representing the University of Oxford. It plays its home games at the University Parks in Oxford, England...
in 1971. 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.
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
See also
- List of Scottish cricket and rugby union players