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Scotland survive scare to beat Nepal in thriller
Cricket World Cup League 2: Scotland v Nepal, Forthill Scotland 323-6 (50 overs): Berrington 102, Leask 96*; Singh Airee 2-37 Nepal 321 (50 overs): Sharki 73, Kami 67; Jones 3-55 Scotland won by two runs Advertisement Scorecard Scotland survived a major scare to beat Nepal in a thrilling Cricket World Cup League 2 match at Forthill. Nepal won with one ball to spare when the sides met at the same ground on Monday before beating the Netherlands two days later. They came close to a third straight win on Scottish soil, but fell two runs short in a chase of 323 in a game that swung back and forth throughout. A magnificent sixth one-day international hundred from Scotland captain Richie Berrington, along with an unbeaten 96 off just 62 deliveries from Michael Leask propelled the hosts to an imposing total. Nepal ultimately fell two runs short as debutant Mackenzie Jones took three wickets, while Leask and Safyaan Sharif claimed two apiece. Advertisement "I don't think I was ready for another close game like that," captain Richie Berrington said. "Delighted to get over the line. Credit to Nepal for the way they fought back and it's great to see the guys hold their nerve. "Mackenzie Jones took really important wickets and then Safyaan Sharif showed all his experience at the end. "It's always nice to contribute to the team's efforts and Leasky took the pressure off me." After Berrington won the toss, opener Charlie Tear played well for his 68 after George Munsey and Brandon McMullen both fell victim to the new ball. Advertisement His contribution, paired with his captain's fine effort, allowed Leask to attack in the final 10 overs. Scotland's number seven struck 12 fours and three sixes on his home ground in a brutal display of power hitting. Berrington's side then started in fine fashion with the ball, reducing Nepal to 34-3, including a first international wicket for Jones. Nepal rebuilt through Bhim Sharki (73) and Aarif Sheikh (39), but when they were removed by Leask and Jones, respectively, Scotland appeared to be in total control. However, a partnership of 105 for the seventh wicket between Dipendra Singh Airee (56) and Sompal Kami (67) brought Nepal right back into the contest. Advertisement Jones caught Singh Airee off Charlie Cassell's bowling and removed Kami himself as the ball followed the Essex seamer on his first Scotland outing. Nepal needed seven to win off the final over - bowled by Safyaan Sharif - and Jones was called into action again, taking a towering catch at long-leg to remove the dangerous Karan KC. It left Nepal needing five off three balls, but Sharif held his nerve to bowl Lalit Rajbanshi and win the game for Scotland. It was the seamer's 258th wicket for Scotland, taking him level with Majid Haq as his country's all-time leading wicket-taker.
BBC News
02-06-2025
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Nepal beat Scotland in final-ball thriller
Cricket World Cup League 2: Scotland v Nepal, ForthillScotland 296-7 (50 overs): Tear 80, McCreath 55; Dhakal 2-26Nepal 297-9 (49.5 overs): Karan 65*, Bhurtel 53; McMullen 3-42Nepal won by one wicketScorecard Scotland suffered a surprise last-ball defeat by Nepal in a nailbiting World Cup League 2 one-day international in the home side's 296-7, Nepal's last pair levelled the scores with one ball of the final over to when left-arm spinner Mark Watt's delivery down the leg side was signalled as a wide to hand Nepal victory, it sparked a pitch invasion from passionate Nepal who sit second bottom of the eight-team qualifying section, had lost to a second-string Scotland A side in a warm-up match on Scotland asked to bat first, it looked like opener Charlie Tear's 80, with Finlay McCreath pitching in with 55, had set a healthy target for the Nepal opener Khushal Bhurtel scored 55, they slumped from 152-2 to 192-7 before all-rounder Karan KC, coming in at nine, did the damage with an unbeaten 65 from 41 balls, including four went into the final over on 290-8 after Karan had plundered 18 from the 49th, but George Munsey caught Sandeep Lamichhane off Watt's first a wide from Watt and a single from last man Rijan Dhakal left Karan on strike with five needed for victory from three hit two twos before Watt's second wide of the over sealed an unlikely looked like the fateful delivery may have come off Karan's pad, but any protests were to no avail as Nepal took the points against a Scotland side sitting fourth in the table and four places above the visitors in the world ODI tri-series continues on Wednesday at the same venue, with Nepal taking on the Netherlands.
BBC News
16-05-2025
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From team of the year to no games - Scotland women's 'helpless' situation
Scotland women's cricket team were riding a high in December 2024. Just one month after their first appearance at a World Cup, they had been named as their nation's team of the than six months on, they have no fixtures scheduled. Not one in the diary. In fact, they have not played at home since 2023."From a funding perspective, cricket costs so much to run. Our resources are extremely sparse - we're almost running on fumes to try and have our women's programme exist," says director of performance Steve Snell."To host a series we're looking at, give or take, between £75,000 and £100,000 and with very little kickback in terms of getting any money back in from that. If we do that three or four times a year against different teams, it gets expensive very quickly."The women's game for associate countries, unlike Full Member nations like England, does not have a mandated Future Tours Programme that dictates when fixtures need to teams having to organise things themselves, even if there is willing from touring countries, such as Pakistan, the prohibitive costs often make it for players such as wicketkeeper Sarah Bryce, the situation is a painful one: "Teams are wanting to play us now, which is really exciting, but we're not able to. "It's just really frustrating because it's difficult to know how we keep pushing forward as a team when we don't have those opportunities to develop.""We feel pretty helpless. There's not really much we can do about the situation if we don't get the financial support that I think we deserve at this point," agrees bowler Abtaha Scotland receives approximately £1.3m per year as part of the International Cricket Council's (ICC) revenue share to fund all their programmes, men's and women' board has reportedly never made a this with the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), which receives in excess of £30m from the ICC and has lucrative series for which to sell broadcast rights on an annual basis. The ECB's latest accounts show a pre-tax profit of £ assistance could be offered from England with regular fixtures, says Snell."I don't think it's a huge ask for us to have more interaction from a men's and women's perspective in terms of England and England A for men's and women's teams." The ECB says it does offer plenty of support, with a spokesperson saying: "We are happy to support the development of women's cricket in Scotland and already organise fixtures at a pathway level, including inviting Scotland Women's under-19s to play in the School Games last year, while England Women's under-19s will play a number of fixtures against Scotland A this summer."But is it enough to only offer support at only junior levels?"These Full Member nations need to help out the associate members a little bit more and try their best to host us whenever they can because it's clearly not really coming from the ICC," says ECB says that it is far from being that simple, though: "The priority for England Women has to be scheduling series against ICC Full Members which fulfil our obligations within the ICC's Future Tours Programme and set the team up for success in global tournaments and marquee series like the Women's Ashes."For Bryce, the need to grow the game should not be seen as purely altruistic, but rather an opportunity to help cricket become a successful sport more widely: "We don't want it to just be India, Australia and England as the only top three teams competing. I think it's much more exciting when those World Cups are competitive."It has long been an issue for the game that qualifying tournaments for major events are organised late, meaning many of Scotland's players who are on one-day-per-week contracts have to rearrange life at the last minute to attend."We are getting very, very last-minute information about tournaments. And when we've got limited funding, it makes planning very difficult. Even four weeks before the tournament in Pakistan with the Women's World Cup Qualifier, we had scant information about what was happening," says a player welfare perspective, this is also far from ideal according to Bryce: "It's okay if it happens once every now and again, but when that's every tour, it's so challenging and different people's workplaces are like: 'You need to give us more notice'."Cricket in the United Kingdom is not short of money – just look at the close to £1bn valuation for the eight franchise teams in The Hundred. According to Snell, it would not take much to make a huge difference."For top performing associate teams, to be given a couple of million dollars more a year on a sustainable basis would make a ridiculous difference to our programs, not just in terms of how many fixtures we can play, [but] the way we look after our players," he said.
BBC News
08-05-2025
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Scotland suffer heavy WCL2 defeat by UAE
WCL2, AmstelveenUnited Arab Emirates 296-6 (50 overs): Chopra 101, Sharma 56, Wassem 41Scotland 199 (43.3 overs): Munsey 43, McCreath 33; Singh 4-30, Khan 3-41UAE win by 97 runsScorecard Scotland slumped to a disappointing 97-run defeat by the United Arab Emirates, damaging their faltering defence of the World Cup League 2 crown. The Scots made heavy weather of a three-wicket win over the same opponents on Sunday and on this occasion were comprehensively beaten by the lowest-ranked team in the captain Rahul Chopra made his first one day international century (101) to help steer his side to Aryansh Sharma contributed 56 and Muhammad Waseem (41) added some late fireworks with his skipper, who made the most of his escape from a big lbw claim on response was lacklustre, losing a succession of batters to poor Munsey was out for 43 in the 19th opener shortly after the departure of fellow opener Charlie Tear (27).Richie Berrington and Finlay McCreath threatened to drag Scotland back into the contest but fell in quick succession for 32 and 33 left them on 164-5 at the end of the 35th over and from there the challenge quickly fizzled out as Simranjeet Singh finished with four wickets and Aayan Khan claimed three."Credit to UAE," Berrington told "It wasn't our best day. At this level, you need to be a lot more consistent." It is just a third win from 14 competition outings for UAE, while Scotland sit mid-table with seven victories from their 13 the Netherlands hosting this tri-nation sequence, Scotland meet the hosts next on Saturday.
