Rupert Scotland

{{Short description|Antiguan-born Bermudian cricketer (1937–2012)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

{{Infobox cricketer

| name =

| image =

| country = Bermuda

| fullname = Irving Rupert Desmond Scotland

| birth_date = 2 September 1937

| birth_place = Antigua

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2012|6|7|1937|9|2|df=yes}}

| death_place = Bermuda

| batting = Right-handed

| bowling = Right-arm medium

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| club1 = Bermuda

| year1 = 1971/72

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| club2 = Leeward Islands

| year2 = 1958

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| family = Cleon Scotland (son)

| columns = 1

| column1 = First-class

| matches1 = 2

| runs1 = 137

| bat avg1 = 34.25

| 100s/50s1 = –/1

| top score1 = 72

| deliveries1 = –

| wickets1 = –

| bowl avg1 = –

| fivefor1 = –

| tenfor1 = –

| best bowling1 = –

| catches/stumpings1 = –/–

| date = 13 October

| year = 2011

| source = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/24/24127/24127.html CricketArchive

}}

Irving Rupert Desmond Scotland (2 September 1937 – 7 June 2012) was an Antiguan-born Bermudian cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium pace bowler.

He played the inaugural first-class match for the Leeward Islands, against Jamaica in 1958, and later played in the inaugural first-class match for Bermuda, against New Zealand in 1972.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/24/24127/24127.html|title=Player profile: Rupert Scotland|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=13 October 2011}} It was the maiden first-class match to be played by the Bermuda cricket team.{{cite web |url=https://www.emergingcricket.com/insight/ec-rewind/bermudas-maiden-first-class-match/ |title=Bermuda's maiden First-class match |work=Emerging Cricket |accessdate=17 April 2020}}

He died following a long illness on 7 June 2012.{{cite news|url=http://www.royalgazette.com/article/20120608/SPORT/120609978|title=Cricket legend Rupert Scotland dies|last=Thompson|first=Colin|date=8 June 2012|work=The Royal Gazette|accessdate=26 March 2013}} His son Cleon Scotland played List A cricket for Bermuda.