Chris Scott (cricketer, Born 1964)
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Christopher Wilmott Scott (born in Lincolnshire on 23 January 1964) is a first-class cricketer who played 129 first-class matches for
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between 1981 and 1996. He was a wicket keeper/batsman who famously dropped
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on 18 while playing against
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in 1994 off the bowling of Simon Brown. Lara, who had earlier been bowled by an
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no-ball, went on to score 501 not out, the highest individual score in first-class cricket history. Scott's fumble cost 483 runs. He scored two centuries of his own during his career, and took 283 catches and completed 17 stumpings. He continues his cricketing career by coaching the Cambridge UCCE side (now the Cambridge MCCU), based at
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, famously coaching the MCCU side to the double in 2012


Family link to other sport

Chris Scott is the nephew of 1960/1970s
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player Derek Whitehead who played for his hometown club Swinton as well as
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. Playing predominantly at full-back he also won three caps for
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against France (twice) and New Zealand. In the 1974
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Final he was awarded the
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in his team's victory over
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by 24–9. In the following season's final he had to be content with a runners up medal against
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who beat Warrington by 14–7.


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Cricinfo Profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Scott, Chris 1964 births Living people English cricketers Durham cricketers Nottinghamshire cricketers Northumberland cricketers Scarborough Festival President's XI cricketers Cricketers from Lincolnshire 20th-century English sportsmen