Scotland promised busy 2008

Scotland have ODI fixtures against New Zealand, South Africa and Kenya in 2008 according to the Future Tours Program released by the International Cricket Council.

Scotland are scheduled to visit South Africa in May 2008 for a tri-series which also involves Kenya, and in June the Kenyans will travel to Scotland for a return series in which New Zealand will replace South Africa.

A spokesman for Cricket Scotland said that it was likely that matches would be played at several venues. At the moment, only Edinburgh has been approved by the ICC, but it was hoped that grounds in Aberdeen, Ayr and Glasgow could be brought into play.

"We have a shed-load of cricket in 2008," said outgoing chief executive Roddy Smith. "It all harks back to the fact that we and Kenya were promised twice as many games as the other World Cup qualifiers when we won the ICC Trophy."

Smith added that while no fixture had been inked in against England, "logic dictates that England should be coming to us in 2007. It's not a scheduled event but we hope it will happen."