Scotland News

A TRIO of Scottish internationalists picked up the Premier Division accolades at last night's annual Lloyds TSB Scotland Cricket Awards in Edinburgh.

FORMER Middlesex and England cricketer and Lord's coach Clive Radley, will be speaking at the Cornish Crusaders lunch on Sunday, March 7. That is good news.

AMBITIOUS Scotland chiefs are planning a radical domestic shake-up which could put them ahead of rivals Ireland in the international pecking order.

Cricket Scotland has named three Regional Performance squads and an Academy squad for the 2010 season as they bid to accelerate development of their young cricketers.

SCOTLAND cricket officials have announced a major shake-up of the domestic game and promoted double-winning coach Neil MacRae to their national back-up team.

EDINBURGH: Cricket Scotland announced that Butt died in his sleep during a visit to his native Lahore in Pakistan.

Cricket Scotland has led tributes to former Scots international bowler Asim Butt, who has died at the age of 42.

WEST Indies cricketers have created a culture of laziness on the training pitch, former coach John Dyson has revealed.

So it is understandable that they hope they won't have to return to the city when they take on Kenya in the Intercontinental Cup.

Martin Rodriguez landed a late drop goal to give Argentina a 9-6 victory over Scotland in a rugby union international on Saturday.

Enjoyed that. If you're about in the morrow, I'm at the wheel for the England v SA cricket one-dayer. What a weekend.

Wales boss Warren Gatland wants his players to handle the expectation when they target a major southern hemisphere scalp on Saturday.

THE first shots have been fired in the battle to stop the controversial multi-million pound redevelopment of the home of Hampshire cricket .

JOHNNIE Beattie turned 24 on Saturday and reckoned beating the Aussies was like having all his birthdays and Christmases come at once.

The fixtures for the 2010 County Cricket season were announced today with defending champions Durham going for a third successive titleA against newly promoted Essex in the County Championship.

Denis Leamy seems certain to miss out on Ireland's final autumn international against South Africa after he was carried off with an ankle injury in the 41-6 victory over Fiji at the RDS in Dublin.

The grand slam dream is over but, with the stakes still high, Wallabies coach Robbie Deans on Thursday named just one change to his starting XV for Saturday's Hopetoun Cup Test against Scotland at Murrayfield.

By phil johnson SCOTLAND have arranged two one-day matches against the touring India A team at Titwood in Glasgow in June and will move other home fixtures around the country next year to let as many fans see the team as possible.

By David Ferguson WHEN Chris Cusiter faced Australia for the first time in 2004 he was one of the most exciting young scrum-halves emerging in the world game.

Scotland flanker John Barclay and hooker Ross Ford look ahead to the side''s second autumn test against Australia on Saturday and say they''ll need to improve significantly from Fiji to beat the Wallabies.