SOMEHOW, amid the maelstrom, the Scotland cricket team will take to the field in Edinburgh this afternoon for their most high-profile home contest for four years.
At just about any other time the visit of New Zealand to the Grange would have been the only topic on everyone in Scottish cricket’s lips, the 2019 World Cup runners-up providing the opposition for two T20Is and a one-day international over the next five days. Not since England were famously beaten in 2018 has a full member nation of this calibre been in town.
