Oscar Charles "Tommy" Scott (4 August 1892 – 15 June 1961) was a Jamaican

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who played in West Indies' inaugural

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tour of England in

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. Scott was born in Franklyn Town,

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. A leg-spinner and lower-order batsman, he took 11 for 138 for

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against the English team in 1910-11 on his first-class debut at the age of 18. His best innings figures were 8 for 67 (12 for 132 in the match) in Jamaica's innings victory over L. H. Tennyson's XI in 1927–28. He played in eight Tests for the West Indies, including all five in the tour of Australia in 1930–31, when he finished the Australian first innings in the First Test by taking four wickets in nine deliveries without cost. Scott holds the record for the most runs conceded by a bowler in a Test. His match figures of 9 for 374, against

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at Kingston in 1929–30, included a first innings bowling analysis of 80.2 overs, 13 maidens, 266 runs for 5 wickets, as England amassed 849 in a

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. The

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bowler

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conceded 358 in the Fourth Test between Australia and

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in 2008–09. Scott died in Kingston at the age of 68. His son

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, also a leg-spinner, played one Test in 1953.

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