Scotland cricket stars Calum MacLeod and Safyaan Sharif have been awarded prestigious individual honours for their exploits last year.
MacLeod has been awarded ESPNcricinfo’s Associate Batting Performance of the Year for his brilliant 140 not out as Scotland secured the biggest win in their cricketing history with a thrilling six-run ODI defeat of England at the Grange in Edinburgh last June.
Sharif, meanwhile, claimed the Associate Bowling Performance of the Year in ESPNcricinfo’s awards as he took five for 33 in Scotland’s exhilirating tie with Zimbabwe in their final group game at the World Cup Qualifiers just under a year ago. Sharif tweeted of his achievement: “Absolutely delighted to have won the Associate bowling performance of the year 2018. Thanks to @ESPNcricinfo for awarding me this award.”
The accolades drew the attention of new Scotland head coach Shane Burger, who is set to officially begin his role next month. Burger tweeted both Sharif and MacLeod to say “congrats”.
The South African assumes his duties after Scotland beat Oman by 15 runs last week to triumph in their three-match one-day series 2-1 and ensure interim head coach Toby Bailey won his last match in charge.
Burger’s first games will be against Afghanistan and Sri Lanka in May.
Why are you making commenting on The Herald only available to subscribers?
It should have been a safe space for informed debate, somewhere for readers to discuss issues around the biggest stories of the day, but all too often the below the line comments on most websites have become bogged down by off-topic discussions and abuse.
heraldscotland.com is tackling this problem by allowing only subscribers to comment.
We are doing this to improve the experience for our loyal readers and we believe it will reduce the ability of trolls and troublemakers, who occasionally find their way onto our site, to abuse our journalists and readers. We also hope it will help the comments section fulfil its promise as a part of Scotland's conversation with itself.
We are lucky at The Herald. We are read by an informed, educated readership who can add their knowledge and insights to our stories.
That is invaluable.
We are making the subscriber-only change to support our valued readers, who tell us they don't want the site cluttered up with irrelevant comments, untruths and abuse.
In the past, the journalist’s job was to collect and distribute information to the audience. Technology means that readers can shape a discussion. We look forward to hearing from you on heraldscotland.com
Comments & Moderation
Readers’ comments: You are personally liable for the content of any comments you upload to this website, so please act responsibly. We do not pre-moderate or monitor readers’ comments appearing on our websites, but we do post-moderate in response to complaints we receive or otherwise when a potential problem comes to our attention. You can make a complaint by using the ‘report this post’ link . We may then apply our discretion under the user terms to amend or delete comments.
Post moderation is undertaken full-time 9am-6pm on weekdays, and on a part-time basis outwith those hours.
Read the rules here