Scott Brant (born 26 January 1983) is a

Zimbabwe Zimbabwe (), officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country located in Southeast Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers, bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the south-west, Zambia to the north, and Mozam ...

cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...

er. He is a right-handed batsman and a left-arm medium-fast bowler. He was born in

Harare Harare (; formerly Salisbury ) is the capital and most populous city of Zimbabwe. The city proper has an area of 940 km2 (371 mi2) and a population of 2.12 million in the 2012 census and an estimated 3.12 million in its metropolitan ...

. Brant's cricketing career began in the 2001–02 Australian cricket season, where he played for

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. Having played in the Pura Cup for two years, winning the competition in 2001/02, he joined Essex the following year. An average of less than 30, and a best bowling tally of 6–45 couldn't save the team from immediate relegation, however. Brant played frequently through the first half of the 2004 season, before being dropped from the first team. He has since played for Queensland in the Cricket Australia Cup and the County Challenge. Brant is a tailend batsman and a frequent left-handed bowler, who averaged just over 30 in his first season in England.

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Scott Brant
at CricketArchive 1983 births Zimbabwean cricketers Living people Alumni of St. John's College (Harare) Queensland cricketers Essex cricketers {{Zimbabwe-cricket-bio-stub