Dan Escott

{{short description|English cricketer}}

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| country = England

| fullname = Daniel Alexander Escott

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1996|9|26|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Torbay, Devon, England

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| batting = Right-handed

| bowling = Right-arm leg-spin

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| club1 = Oxford University

| year1 = 2016–

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| matches1 = 3

| runs1 = 373

| bat avg1 = 74.60

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| top score1 = 175

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| bowl avg1 = 15.70

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| date = 6 July 2018

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Daniel Alexander Escott (born 26 September 1996) is an English cricketer and schoolteacher. On his first-class debut, playing for Oxford University, he scored a century and took six wickets in an innings.

Cricket career

Escott attended Winchester College, where he excelled at cricket, playing in the First XI for five years without missing a match.Wisden 2016, p. 803. In his final year, 2015, he set a school record by scoring 1096 runs in a season, beating the previous record set by Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi in 1959.Wisden 2016, p. 836.{{Cite web|date=20 July 2018|title=Not even Uni records will persuade Dan to join the elite|url=https://www.thecricketpaper.com/news/county-news/374905/not-even-uni-records-will-persuade-dan-to-join-the-elite/|url-status=live|access-date=2021-08-23|website=The Cricket Paper|language=en-US|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210823235226/https://www.thecricketpaper.com/news/county-news/374905/not-even-uni-records-will-persuade-dan-to-join-the-elite/ |archive-date=23 August 2021 }}

He went up to Lincoln College, Oxford, appearing in several minor matches for the university team in 2016 before making his first-class debut in the annual match against Cambridge University. Opening the batting, he made 36 in Oxford's first innings and did not bowl in Cambridge's first innings. In Oxford's second innings he scored 125 off 202 balls, then took 6 for 71 off 31 overs of his leg-spin to help Oxford to victory by 103 runs.{{cite web | url = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/929/929523.html | title = Oxford University v Cambridge University 2016| publisher = CricketArchive| accessdate = 9 July 2016}} In the university match in 2018 he captained Oxford to victory after scoring 175 in Oxford's first innings.{{cite web |title=Varsity Match, University Match at Oxford, Jul 2-5 2018 |url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/series/18691/scorecard/1144954/oxford-university-vs-cambridge-university-varsity-match-university-match-2018 |website=Cricinfo |accessdate=6 July 2018}}

Escott has taught economics at Harrow School since 2019. He is on the Board of Governors at St John's Church of England School in Stanmore.{{cite web |title=Governing Board |url=https://stjohns.harrow.sch.uk/harrow/primary/stjohns/site/pages/ourschool/ourgovernors |website=St John's Church of England School |access-date=7 February 2022}}

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