David Bell (sportsman)

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

Rugby union career[]

Amateur career[]

He played for Watsonians.[1]

Provincial career[]

He was capped by Edinburgh District.[2]

International career[]

He was capped by Scotland 'B' twice, both times against France 'B' in the period 1974-75.

Bell was capped for Scotland's national rugby union team four times, all during the 1975 Five Nations Championship.[3]

Cricket career[]

At cricket he played four first-class matches with the in 1971.[4] 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 24.40 from his seven matches, with a highest score of 63. That innings, his only half century, came while playing for Englund against Ireland at Dublin in 1981.[5]

See also[]

  • List of Scottish cricket and rugby union players

References[]

  1. ^ Bath, p105
  2. ^ https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=GGgVawPscysC&dat=19741003&printsec=frontpage&hl=en
  3. ^ "David Bell". Scrum.com.
  4. ^ "First-Class Matches played by David Bell". CricketArchive.
  5. ^ "Ireland v Scotland 1981". CricketArchive.

Cricket[]

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
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