Scotland name preliminary squad for World Twenty20

Scotland's selectors have named a preliminary squad for the World Twenty20 in England in June. The squad consists of the 25 players who were previously selected for the national squad with the addition of Matthew Parker and Stuart Chalmers. The final squad of 15 will be announced on May 5.

Parker made his debut for Scotland last season and spent the last three months playing and training in Australia as part of his commitment to the full time cricket performance course at Telford College in Edinburgh. Chalmers was picked in a national squad for the first time after impressing the coaches and selectors over the last couple of seasons and during the winter training sessions.

Scotland have been grouped with New Zealand and South Africa for the World Twenty20. They will play warm-up games against England and the Netherlands on june 2 and 3.

Squad: John Blain (Yorkshire CCC), Richie Berrington (Greenock), Stuart Chalmers (Grange) , Kyle Coetzer (Durham CCC), Gordon Drummond (Carlton), Gordon Goudie (West of Scotland), Gavin Hamilton (East Brierly), Majid Haq (Clydesdale), Omer Hussain (Clydesdale), Moneeb Iqbal (West of Scotland), Dougie Lockhart (West of Scotland), Ross Lyons (Carlton), Neil McCallum (Grange), Callum MacLeod (Warwickshire CCC), Dewald Nel (Greenock), Navdeep Poonia (Warwickshire CCC), Glenn Rogers (Stenhousemuir), Qasim Sheikh (Clydesdale), Craig Wright (Greenock), Gregor Maiden (Grange), Matthew Parker (Arbroath), Colin Smith (Aberdeenshire), Simon Smith (Grange), Jan Stander (Stoneywood Dyce), Fraser Watts (Carlton), Sean Weeraratna (Greenock), Ryan Watson (Forfarshire).