page_title: Tup Scott
section_title: 1886 tour of England
hierarchical_section_title: Tup Scott / First-class career / 1886 tour of England
caption_attribution_description: English: Scan of the 1886 Australia national cricket team Back row (l-r) George Giffen, Fred Spofforth, Major Benjamin Wardill (manager). Middle row (l-r) Frank Farrands (umpire), Bates (scorer), William Bruce, John McIlwraith, Tom Garrett, Edwin Evans, John Trumble, Salter (scorer), Bob Thoms (umpire). Front row (l-r) George Bonnor, Jack Blackham, Henry Scott, Affie Jarvis, Sammy Jones, George Palmer
context_page_description: Henry James Herbert "Tup" Scott was an Australian cricketer who played first-class cricket for Victoria and Test cricket for Australia. He acquired his nickname during a cricket tour of England in 1884 from his love of London sightseeing tours which cost two pence or "tuppence".
  Scott was born in Toorak, Victoria, and soon moved to Melbourne, where he began to play cricket at a high level. He made his first-class debut in February 1878, and was soon chosen for the Australian team. By the time of the 1886 Australian tour of England, he had been appointed captain, but he remained in England at the tour's conclusion to pursue a career in medicine, and played no further first-class cricket. Scott began as a right arm fast-medium bowler and achieved his best analysis of six wickets for 33 runs on his first-class debut. But it was as a middle order batsman that Scott developed into an international player. He scored four first-class centuries, including one for Australia when he scored 102 at The Oval in 1884.
context_section_description: The Melbourne Club was aware that, in the aftermath of the 1884–85 dispute, there were proposals in England to ban certain Australian players. The club decided to omit former captain Murdoch, Bannerman and Percy McDonnell from the team. This move caused widespread criticism, especially as Boyle, Tom Horan and Hugh Massie had already declared themselves unavailable. Scott, now aged 27, was chosen as captain. In Wisden's view: "It was a misfortune for Scott  ... Under happier circumstances he might have got on well, but fortune was against him". Harte comments that it was Scott's "misfortune in a way to be following the blazing success of Murdoch's captaincy with a team that looked good on paper but was, in fact, growing jaded".
  The tour was a great disappointment for Australian cricket. The team won only nine of its 39 matches and were soundly beaten in the Test series, but the real difficulty was the indiscipline of some players. According to Wisden, quarrels began among the players during the opening match at Sheffield Park, Uckfield and Scott had "neither the strength of character nor the experience as a leader that the difficulties of his position demanded". Scott and the team manager Ben Wardill spent a lot of time adjudicating quarrels and the stress of the captaincy impacted Scott's performances as a batsman. The 1887 edition of Wisden bemoaned the absence of Murdoch, saying: "W. L. Murdoch, who was chief in the field of the three teams of 1880, 1882, and 1884, may not have exhibited all the qualities which go to make up that rare and valuable being, an ideal captain – but he certainly had a larger experience and a stronger will than the gentleman who, with the best of intentions, and the greatest sincerity of purpose, led the team of 1886".
  England won the First Test at Old Trafford by four wickets. Wisden called it a "remarkable match" and described Scott's innings of 47 in the second innings as "capital batting". This was the closest Australia came to beating England in the series and Wisden said "they made a splendid fight of it". In the Second Test at Lord's, Australia had two low totals and were well beaten, Wisden remarking that "the Australians thus suffered a most crushing and decisive defeat by an innings and 106 runs". Wisden commented on the poor form of the Australians in the third Test which meant "England was left with another decisive victory, by an innings and 217 runs". W. G. Grace made his highest Test score of 170 after he was dropped by Scott when he had scored only six runs. Scott made only 110 runs in his six Test innings at 18.33 including his highest score of 47 at Old Trafford. But Australia's batting was poor with only one half-century scored for the team in the series.
  Scott played some good innings and totalled 1,278 runs on the tour at an average of 22.03 with a best score of 123 against Middlesex at Lord's. In an innings of 67 not out against Yorkshire at Bramall Lane, Sheffield he scored 22 runs in one four-ball over from Saul Wade, which is still the record for the most runs scored of a four-ball over in first-class cricket history.
caption: Tup Scott pictured 3rd left (front row) with the 1886 Australian cricket team
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