Good Morning to all, I was just wondering why Some good associate team not playing regular matches like others international team because some of them are really strong and good team who can become a good team in a feature on an International level. I am seeing Scotland for a long time as though they are not good in ranking but they continue playing well in ODI and T20 matches.
Scotland is one of the best team in all Associates cricket playing nations and my favorite too in all of it. the reason behind I like Scotland most is that they have a great batsman who can play in any condition and in any situation. They have such good batsman like Kyle Coetzer who is captain too of Scotland. he is attacking the opening batsman who gives a good start to their team. he is senior player of the whole team and his record is also good in ODI & T20. he starts his International career in 2008 and now its 10 years of him in international cricket but he played only 49 ODI matches which is very less. he is a great leader of the team too who always encourages his teammates to play cricket for Scotland.
There are some others great batsman too in teams like Richie Berrington and Calum MacLeod who are good middle order batsman. they are solid batsmen for their team who can control middle overs with good and sensitive batting. they both can play aggressive too but mostly they are defensive. both are allrounder too so they can bowl too but MacLeod do less bowling compared to Berrington. this both players did a crucial role for many time to help the team to victory.
I like Scotland Wicket-keeper Matthew Cross because of his unique and aggressive batting compare to other batsmen. while he started International matches he was doing open with Kyle Coetzer but since George Munsey come in the team, Cross keep batting in One-Down sometimes too but still he keeps his aggressive batting and he did many time big score too. according to me, in all Associate team, Matthew Cross is the best Wicket-Keeper batsman. if you remember last ODI of Scotland that they defeated England, in that match, Cross did a good start in Opening with Coetzer and that thing gave Momentum to the whole team for creating a big score.
They have also some great fast bowlers like Safyaan Sharif, Alasdair Evans who always did good bowling for a team. they have also had some your Spinners like Mark Watt who are doing their performance for Scotland too. in the bowling department, Micheal Leask is also a play major role who is all-rounder Actually. Their bowling Lineup is not strong but if they play more cricket then they can also improve their performance too because with more experience of international cricket they can do batter too. some of their youngsters also doing a good performance in England Domestic Cricket.
if we see all over, then their team is looking so balancing and with full of confidence, talent, and mature players but only thing need is that they have to play more cricket to show their talents. They have beaten England recently so they have capability and experience of playing against a big team because England is one of the strong contenders for World Cup 2019 and they already have beaten them which lift that confidence. if they get more chances to play against International teams then they can also become a good team like how Afghanistan doing. most of Scotland team players playing in Domestic cricket of England and they are performing well there too. in last IPL auction, some of the players were named in the auction but none of the team bought them but some of them deserve to play there too because of their ability. I don't know exactly what is a problem in Scotland cricket that they are not planning for more cricket. at least they can also play against like Zimbabwe, Bangladesh, West Indies, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka. I know Scotland is not ready for Test Matches but they must deserve to play more ODI and T20 Matches.
I have also posted this blog on scorum.in and here is its link :- Scotland Deserve to Play More ODI and T20 Cricket Matches