From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Scotch Taylor
Scotch Taylor
Scotch Taylor record score during the game.[1] Transvaal won the
Personal information 1950–51 Currie Cup, drawing only one match, and with
368 runs Taylor finished tenth in the Currie Cup runs
Batting style Right-hand bat
tally, only behind Rowan for Transvaal. In the 1951–52
Bowling style Legbreak season, Taylor was out of the team and Transvaal rele-
gated to Section B, but he returned with a hundred and
International information
four wickets in a preseason draw with Natal in November
National side South African 1952. And though he fell to 25th place in the seasonal
Career statistics runs tally, he hit 164 in an innings win over Border,
where he added 274 with Rowan for the first wicket. He
Competition Tests First-class did, however, record six scores below 20, and was
Matches 1 52 dropped for the return clash with Border, where Trans-
vaal lost by an innings. His bowling was also utilised, as
Runs scored 18 2717 he took 10 wickets at a bowling average of 32.30 in the
Batting average 9.00 31.59 season.
There was no Currie Cup the following season, but
100s/50s 0/0 6/11
Taylor still played three first class games, though he was
Top score 12 180 relegated down the order. Against the touring New
Zealanders Taylor batted at number seven; in a rain-af-
Balls bowled - 2517
fected game at Ellis Park, Transvaal hit 145 for eight in 29
Wickets - 32 overs, with Taylor slapping Tony MacGibbon, Bob Blair
and John Richard Reid for 64 runs, 40 more than any
Bowling average - 30.81
other Transvaal batsman. Transvaal declared overnight,
5 wickets in innings - 0 trailing by 71 runs, but New Zealand batted out the day
for a draw.[2]
10 wickets in match - 0
Without Taylor, Transvaal won their first game of the
Best bowling - 4/52 1954–55, but Taylor played in the match against defend-
ing champions Western Province, making a first-class
Catches/stumpings
Catches/stumpings 0/- 32/-
highest score of 180 as Transvaal won by an innings and
Source: Cricinfo, 306 runs. The following week against Natal, he and Ken
Funston took Transvaal within 32 runs of Natal’s first in-
Alistair Innes ’Scotch’ Taylor (25 July 1925, Johannesburg nings total with eight wickets in hand, but Hugh Tayfield
– 7 February 2004, Johannesburg) was a South African and Ian Smith, and Taylor was then bowled by Tayfield
sportsman who played first-class cricket and hockey for for nine as Transvaal made 99 in pursuit of a target of 246
Transvaal, and captained the Transvaal cricket team for to win. As Trevor Goddard’s 55 helped Natal bat out 46
four seasons. Taylor represented South Africa in one overs for the draw in the return leg, where Taylor hit 61
cricket Test in 1956. He was an alumnus of the King Ed- of his team’s 423 runs in two innings, and Transvaal al-
ward VII School, set up a squash section in the Old Edwar- so failed to beat Western Province, they had to be con-
dians club, and was elected president of the South African tent with second place; with 461 runs, the most Taylor
Hockey Union. had made in a Currie Cup season, Taylor finished seventh
Taylor died of a stroke[1] at the age of 78. in the runs tally but topped the batting averages.[3]
Taylor got his captaincy debut the following season,
Cricket career leading his team to a 52-run win over Eastern Province
and the league lead, but followed it up by getting bowled
Taylor was a top-order batsman, and made his Currie by Hugh Roy (a medium-pacer with a career bowling av-
Cup debut as an opener against Rhodesia in 1950–51. He erage of 42) as Transvaal chased 272 for their third win.
scored his first century in the next match, as Griqualand Despite Russell Endean’s unbeaten 91, Transvaal lost, and
West were defeated by an innings and 332 runs and Tay- Western Province got off to the start that would eventu-
lor added 204 for the first wicket with South Africa Test ally lead to the Currie Cup title. Transvaal also lost their
veteran Eric Rowan, who broke the previous Currie Cup other clash with Western Province, as they chased 120
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Scotch Taylor
with eight wickets down on a rain-affected wicket. Tay- Cup, but only made 15 and 0 in the title decider against
lor top-scored after being put in to open.[4] However, he Natal, which Natal drew to win the title after making
only got one fifty in the season, and with 235 runs he fin- Transvaal follow on. He made his final game against the
ished 34th on the Currie Cup runs table. International Cavaliers side that toured South Africa in
There was no Currie Cup cricket the following season, the early months of the 1960–61 season, making 7 and 41
as England toured and played 20 first-class matches. against an opening-bowler pair of Fred Trueman and Bri-
However, there was a first-class match between Trans- an Statham.
vaal and Natal, and after a run out in the first innings
Taylor hit 85 as Transvaal recovered from a 145-run first
innings deficit to win the game by three wickets. Taylor
References
played in two games for Transvaal and a South African [1] ^ "Death of Springbok batsman" by Peter Martin,
XI against the tourists, and with captain Jackie McGlew CricketArchive, April 2006. Retrieved 27 April 2006.
out of the Test squad with an injury he was picked for [2] Transvaal v New Zealanders in 1953/54, from
the first Test starting on Christmas Eve. He ended with 12 CricketArchive, retrieved 9 April 2007
and 6 in his two innings, as England won the Test by 131 [3] Batting and Fielding in Currie Cup 1954/55
runs. McGlew returned for the second Test, but was un- (Ordered by Average), from CricketArchive,
able to play again, but now Rhodesia opener Tony Pithey retrieved 9 April 2007
was preferred to Taylor, who ended the season with a [4] Transvaal v Western Province in 1955/56,
first class batting average of 22. CricketArchive, retrieved 9 April 2007
The next season was little better. Though Transvaal
again beat Natal, Taylor once again got out in single fig-
ures, and in his two matches against the touring Aus-
External links
tralians he failed to make fifty even once, thus failing to • Player profile: Scotch Taylor from ESPNcricinfo
pass 50 for the first time since his one-game season in • Statistical summary from CricketArchive
1949–50. Three fifties the following season helped him up Persondata
the batting average to 24.92 as the Currie Cup was once Name Taylor, Scotch
again played for, and in a rain-affected season he finished
Alternative names
20th in the runs tally and Transvaal won the Cup after
a win over Western Province and a draw with Natal in Short description
the final two games. Taylor was captain in four of the six Date of birth 25 July 1925
games. Place of birth
His last hundred came the following season, in a
197-run stand with Russell Endean as Border were defeat- Date of death 7 February 2004
ed by an innings and 44 runs, with Transvaal losing on- Place of death
ly two wickets. Taylor made 353 runs, tenth in the Currie
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