Cricket News

Bad light brought the first ODI to an excruciating end with Hong Kong needing 18 to win off 12 balls with six wickets in hand when the match was called off

Cricket Scotland announced a near-identical squad from their previous campaign - the ICC World Cricket League Championship against UAE - for the two ODIs against Hong Kong in Edinburgh on September 8 and September 10

Scotland batsman Calum MacLeod has credited a return to form to technical adjustments made during a winter of off-season training with his county side Durham

Calum MacLeod's third ODI ton propelled Scotland's chase of 229 to see the hosts to a seven-wicket win over UAE at the Grange, thereby closing Netherlands' lead at the top of the table to one point

Scotland captain Preston Mommsen called the achievement of three Scotland players - himself, Kyle Coetzer and Richie Berrington - passing 1000 career ODI runs in a 98-run win over UAE "pretty special"

Scotland's batsmen orchestrated a run fest at The Grange as captain Preston Mommsen and vice-captain Kyle Coetzer brought up centuries in a 98-run rout over UAE

Only 66 overs were possible in a rain-affected Intercontinental Cup match between UAE and Scotland that eventually called off as a draw in Ayr

Malcolm Cannon, chief executive of Cricket Scotland, says that greater context of cricket including a recently proposed 13-team ODI league will enhance Scotland's competitiveness on the global stage

Mohammad Shahzad produced his fifth ODI fifty for Afghanistan, a typically belligerent knock, to set up a 78-run win via the Duckworth-Lewis method over Scotland at The Grange on Wednesday afternoon

Scotland's first ODI at home in more than two years ended in frustrating fashion, with the first ODI of the two-match series against Afghanistan finishing with a no result

Ruaidhri Smith, the uncapped allrounder, has been named in Scotland's 13-man squad to face Afghanistan in two One-Day Internationals

leem Dar, the Pakistani umpire, has been drawn into a row involving one of Britain's oldest cricket clubs, after his sons were persuaded by a rogue club official to pretend to be Scottish in order to play in a league fixture

John Blain, the former Scotland seamer, has been added to Scotland's performance coaching team and will be responsible for the development of young fast bowlers in Scotland

Hong Kong have become the latest Associate nation to confirm fixtures against Ireland and Scotland in what is becoming an increasingly busy 2016 season

Scotland will host Afghanistan in two ODIs at the Grange in Edinburgh in July

Scotland will host UAE for an Intercontinental Cup match and two World Cricket League fixtures in August

Preston Mommsen, the Scotland captain, has called on the ICC to have a rethink about the venue of the qualifying tournament - currently scheduled for Bangladesh in 2018 - for the 50-over World Cup in 2019 in England

Scotland ended their drought at ICC global events with an eight-wicket win against Hong Kong, which was set up by a sharp bowling performance

Saturday's meeting could be anyone's game. Scotland, though, will probably be a little bit more desperate as they are yet to register a win in 20 previous attempts at an ICC event

Fans without tickets were turned away from Scotland's World T20 match against Zimbabwe at the VCA stadium in Nagpur today, as there are no ticketing facilities available at the ground