The Scots bring down the curtain on 33 years of action against county opposition after being excluded from a revamped competition from 2014, and they will be eager to make a better impression than this year when they managed just one win among seven defeats in a rain-affected summer. They open on May 5 away to Hampshire, featuring the former Saltires batsman George Bailey, who is Australia's T20 captain, then entertain Essex for the first time in nine years a week later, before hosting a Bank Holiday double-header against Derbyshire and Surrey on May 26 and 27.