Career
As of 2012 he is the only player to have done southern Scott began playing rugby league in the mid 1930s, favouring league over soccer where he had previously represented "Auckland B". In league Scott quickly made the Auckland rugby league team and in 1939 was selected for the New Zealand Kiwis touring squad to England.
He played in one Test match before the start of cut short the tour.
He was one of five players who did not play in the two club matches the Kiwis played before the tour was cancelled. During the Second World War, Scott served in Egypt and Italy.
A burly and upright right-handed opening batsman with little or no backlift, Scott started his cricketing career by scoring a century on first-class debut for Auckland versus Canterbury in 1937-1938. He made his Test debut against Australia in the match arranged after the Second World War in March 1946 and was top scorer in the first innings with 14 out of a total of just 42.
New Zealand totalled just 96 runs in the two completed innings.
He was one of the more reliable batsmen on the New Zealand tour of England in 1949, and played in all four Tests. He later played in home Tests against England and the West Indies, reserving his best Test performance for his last game, when he made 84 out of New Zealand total of 160 in reply to the West Indies 546 for six wickets, a four-hour innings that took up enough time for bad light and rain to come to his side"s rescue. In all, he played ten Tests for New Zealand.
Scott played for Auckland from 1937-1938 to 1952-1953.
He was a prolific scorer in Plunket Shield cricket, and in all first-class cricket averaged only just under 50 runs per innings. His highest score was 204 against Otago in 1947-1948.
Scott died at Devonport, New Zealand on 2 August 1980.
