It is nearly 10 years since he made his senior Scotland debut, but Majid Haq just keeps bowling along, forever determined to prise out opponents with his mixture of spin and guile, while enhancing his reputation as an effective run-gatherer at the same time.
Tomorrow, the Clydesdale all-rounder will fly out to the Middle East with his compatriots for an extended sequence of matches, encompassing every format, from a four-day Intercontinental Cup tie with the United Arab Emirates in Sharjah, to a couple of one-day internationals against the same rivals, as the prelude to the World Twenty20 qualifying event in Dubai, where Haq and his colleagues face a gruelling schedule of seven games in eight days.
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