Cricket Archive

  • Floodlights can brighten the game, insists Cook
    Thursday 24 May 2012

    Alastair Cook, the England batsman, believes that wider use of floodlights could be crucial to the future of Test cricket.

  • Strauss praises team spirit
    Tuesday 22 May 2012

    Andrew Strauss, the England captain, believes his team's famed resilience with both bat and ball allowed them to prevail in a tough first Test of the summer against West Indies.

  • Saltires' new home venue passes test
    Tuesday 22 May 2012

    BOTHWELL Castle Policies has been given the thumb's up as the Saltires' latest home venue.

  • 'Poor bowling' proves costly
    Monday 21 May 2012

    SCOTLAND's cricketers came a distant second as the first phase of their CB40 campaign ended yesterday in a comprehensive 89-run defeat to Hampshire.

  • Saltires aim for two firsts
    Sunday 20 May 2012

    GORDON Drummond, the Saltires captain, believes his side can complete the first phase of their CB40 campaign with victory over Hampshire.

  • Triple strike
    Sunday 20 May 2012

    W EST Indies captain Darren Sammy said a few days ago that if his team could eliminate poor sessions, they would start to make real progress.

  • CSL: Stander the stand-out for impressive Stoneywood-Dyce
    Sunday 20 May 2012

    STONEYWOOD-DYCE are regarded by some as the weak link in the new Eastern Premier Division but the People's Park side answered that charge in emphatic style yesterday with a thumping win over Heriot's.

  • Cricket Scotland League
    Saturday 19 May 2012

    WESTERN PREMIER DIVISION

  • Saltires update
    Saturday 19 May 2012

    Paul Hoffmann, the former Scotland man, believes his fellow Australian Simon Katich will be the main threat when the Saltires take on Hampshire tomorrow.

  • Emotional Strauss ends century drought at last
    Saturday 19 May 2012

    Andrew Strauss, the England captain, admitted he had "to take a moment" as he received a sustained ovation at his home stadium for finally ending an 18-month wait for his 20th Test century.

  • Smith: Five Nations Championship a sound idea and worthy of discussion
    Thursday 17 May 2012

    Roddy Smith, the chief executive of Cricket Scotland, has endorsed the concept of a Five Nations Championship in his sport, as proposed by these pages earlier this week.

  • Prior warns against England complacency
    Wednesday 16 May 2012

    Matt Prior is adamant there will be no room for complacency as England set out to restate their credentials as Test cricket's No.1 team, against West Indies at Lord's.

  • Formation of European Championship could be real benefit to the emerging countries
    Tuesday 15 May 2012

    The Scottish Saltires were to have pitted their skills against the Welsh Dragons in Uddingston on CB40 duty at the weekend until the weather intervened.

  • Cricket update
    Tuesday 15 May 2012

    Gordon Goudie and Safy Sharif, the injured Saltires bowlers, will miss at least another two CB40 games.

  • Heavy weather: Saltires succumb to elements
    Monday 14 May 2012

    Gordon Drummond, the Saltires captain, expressed his frustration last night after his side's hopes of consecutive CB40 wins were washed away by the rain.

  • Eastern Premier: Wake-up call for Arbroath
    Monday 14 May 2012

    Fraser Burnett insists there is no panic in the Arbroath camp in the wake of their opening day derby defeat by Aberdeenshire.

  • Western Premier: Blain gives youth a chance as Ayr are bowled over
    Monday 14 May 2012

    WEST of Scotland have been described in recent times as Scottish cricket's sleeping giant, but there are signs that something is stirring at Hamilton Crescent.

  • Batting out of hell
    Sunday 13 May 2012

    CALUM MacLeod's career has perhaps not taken the anticipated course since, as a prodigiously talented teenager, he headed south to Warwickshire almost a decade ago.

  • Tough call on Bopara
    Sunday 13 May 2012

    Ravi Bopara's injury presented England's selectors with an unwelcome last-minute dilemma ahead of today's announcement of the squad to face West Indies in this week's first Test at Lord's.

  • Rain a pain but Blain is best for West
    Sunday 13 May 2012

    SCOTTISH cricket's new domestic structure yesterday ran up against a familiar old problem when rain played havoc with the opening day card.

  • New conference season opens
    Saturday 12 May 2012

    Support for Scottish cricket's new domestic structure may be lukewarm in some quarters but there appears to be universal agreement that last season's weighty 16-team divisions had little future.

  • Bangladesh date for Scots
    Saturday 12 May 2012

    SCOTLAND will face Bangladesh on home turf in at least one ODI during the summer after new funding was found for their European tour.

  • Leicestershire back in for Parker
    Wednesday 9 May 2012

    Matty Parker, the Forfarshire and Saltires fast bowler, is being tracked by Leicestershire, courtesy of career-saving surgery.

  • Rain stays away but Notts fail to stem flood from MacLeod
    Tuesday 8 May 2012

    IT may not have felt like it to the shivering crowd who braved the elements at the Citylets Grange yesterday, but the weather was kind to Scotland's cricketers.

  • Saltires frozen out in hailstorm
    Monday 7 May 2012

    SCOTLAND lost the opening match of their CB40 campaign as a combination of a top order batting collapse and a torrential hailstorm led to an 18-run win for holders Surrey on the D/L method.

  • Forfarshire batting duo do it all themselves
    Monday 7 May 2012

    BRENDAN Ford and Craig Wallace produced a stunning batting display to prove that their is life at Forfarshire after Ryan Watson.

  • Evans reaps reward
    Sunday 6 May 2012

    Aged 23, Ali Evans can hardly be described as a boy wonder, yet the former Carlton bowler, poised for a CB40 debut with Saltires against Surrey today, appears ready to make up for lost time.

  • Hopes high that new-look leagues will offer greater competition
    Sunday 6 May 2012

    IN between the showers, cricket supporters have already had a taste of a new-look Scottish Cup and on Saturday revamped leagues will come into effect.

  • Double tons seal Carlton victory
    Sunday 6 May 2012

    FRASER Watts and Preston Mommsen both stroked centuries yesterday in the perfect preparation for Scotland's CB40 opener against Surrey today.

  • Kent backs fellow South African Symes to be a hit with Saltires clydesdale bank 40
    Saturday 5 May 2012

    Jon Kent, the former Saltires player, is confident Jean Symes, his fellow South African, can become a star for the Scots.