Emanuel Scott (6 July 1834 – 3 December 1898) was an English

first-class cricket First-class cricket, along with List A cricket and Twenty20 cricket, is one of the highest-standard forms of cricket. A first-class match is one of three or more days' scheduled duration between two sides of eleven players each and is officiall ...

er, who played one match for

Yorkshire County Cricket Club Yorkshire County Cricket Club is one of 18 first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the historic county of Yorkshire. Yorkshire are the most successful team in English cricketing hi ...

in 1864. Born in Birkenshaw,

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, Scott batted right-handed and scored eight runs in his only innings, against

Kent Kent is a county in South East England and one of the home counties. It borders Greater London to the north-west, Surrey to the west and East Sussex to the south-west, and Essex to the north across the estuary of the River Thames; it faces ...

at Swatter's Carr,

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. He also took two wickets for 27, bowling right arm, round arm, medium pace. Yorkshire won the match by four wickets. Scott also played for the Gentlemen of Sussex from 1860 to 1869. Scott died in December 1898, in Birkenshaw, Yorkshire.

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1834 births 1898 deaths Yorkshire cricketers People from Birkenshaw, West Yorkshire Sportspeople from Kirklees Cricketers from West Yorkshire English cricketers {{england-cricket-bio-1830s-stub