David Bell (sportsman)

David Lauder Bell (born April 28, 1949 in Warriston, Edinburgh) was a Scottish rugby union international and first-class cricketer.

Rugby union

Bell, a centre, was capped for Scotland's national rugby union team four times, all during the 1975 Five Nations Championship.^[1] He also played for Watsonians.^[2]

Cricket

At cricket he played three first-class matches with the Oxford University Cricket Club in 1971.^[3] He didn't reappear on the first-class scene until 1979 when he represented Scotland against Sri Lanka's touring side, in Glasgow. A right-handed batsman, Bell finished his cricket career with 234 runs at 23.40 from his seven matches, with a highest score of 60. That innings, his only half century, came while playing for Scotland against Ireland at Dublin in 1981.^[4]

References

Cricket

• "First-Class Matches played by David Bell". CricketArchive. http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/26/26950/First-Class_Matches.html. 
• Cricinfo: David Bell

Rugby union

• Bath, Richard (ed.) The Scotland Rugby Miscellany (Vision Sports Publishing Ltd, 2007 ISBN 1905326246)
• Godwin, Terry Complete Who's Who of International Rugby (Cassell, 1987, ISBN 0713718382)
• David Bell on scrum dot com

Footnotes

1. ^ "David Bell". Scrum.com. http://www.scrum.com/scotland/rugby/player/7810.html. 
2. ^ Bath, p105
3. ^ "First-Class Matches played by David Bell". CricketArchive. http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/26/26950/First-Class_Matches.html. 
4. ^ "Ireland v Scotland 1981". CricketArchive. http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/41/41474.html. 

See also

• List of Scottish cricket and rugby union players

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