Brave Scottish spinner offers Australia tips

Scotland have a couple of Australians in their squad and one of them has offered some selection suggestions for the opening game. Glenn Rogers, a left-arm spinner who was a Brisbane grade player, reckons the defending champions will need to pick Brad Hogg at Warner Park in St Kitts on Wednesday.

Australia have a pace-heavy outfit and Hogg is vulnerable whenever they run into a surface suiting the fast men, although most of the pitches so far have helped the slow bowlers. "From what I understand it's a pretty flat wicket and a small ground so there should be lots of runs,” Rogers told AAP. "I think they probably need to play ‘Hoggy’. You need that variety."

Paul Hoffmann, the Scotland fast bowler, is another Queenslander who will run into some old opponents during the David v Goliath contest. So how did he end up there? "In the summer of 1995 I played some league cricket in Wales," Hoffmann told The Scotsman. "My sister was travelling at the time, so one afternoon we were bored, sitting around, and I just said we should go for a drive up to Scotland and I remember saying to my sister: 'I wonder if they play cricket here.’”