Scott Elstone is a batting allrounder who joined Nottinghamshire in 2010. A product of their academy system, he made his first-team debut in the CB40 against Scotland in August 2010, making an unbeaten 18 from 12 deliveries.

Though not yet a first-team regular for the county, he hit the headlines at Trent Bridge as a substitute fielder for England in the second Test against India in 2011, taking two catches on the boundary to remove Suresh Raina and Harbhajan Singh as England charged to victory, although he dropped one in between. At 21 years and 52 days, he was the youngest English substitute fielder to take a catch in England since Ben Spendlove snaffled South Africa's Gerhardus Liebenberg off Dominic Cork in the first Test at Edgbaston in 1998. Unlike him, and other 12th-men heroes like Gary Pratt, Elstone will hope his career high will not peak there.

After his introduction in 2010, a winter playing club cricket in Australia honed his skills further and, as a lower-order batsman and outstanding fielder, he featured in 15 domestic Twenty20 fixtures in 2011 and captained Nottinghamshire to victory in the Second Eleven Trophy, seeing them over the line with an unbeaten 69 to beat Lancashire at Liverpool. But his opportunities in the senior side were limited and he was released at the end of the 2012 season.
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