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- Updated: August 12, 2016
Malcolm Cannon, chief executive of Cricket Scotland, says that greater context in cricket, including a recently proposed 13-team ODI league, will enhance Scotland’s competitiveness on the global stage. He says that his administration remains focused on trying to secure more of their own fixtures in the event that the proposal does not gain ratification.
“I think all the proposals that have come from the ICC in terms of their contextualising cricket, their proposals around ODI leagues and even their proposals around multi-day cricket are still very much in the melting pot,” Cannon told ESPNcricinfo in a recent interview. “No decisions were made, lots of discussions were had and what I would say is that it’s all very positive noise. It’s all very encouraging in terms of them recognising the need for change.
“As regards to Scotland’s opportunity to become that 13th team on a proposed 13-nation ODI league, we would like to think that we’re in the vanguard, that we’re in with a very strong case and a strong opportunity but I don’t think we can take anything for granted. We’ve got to still continue to perform, to aim towards our qualification for various tournaments over the next few years as if this isn’t going to happen and then hope that it does.”
Scotland wrapped up their rain-affected four-day Intercontinental Cup match against UAE on Friday and will play two WCL Championship ODIs on August 14 and 16 in Edinburgh. Apart from these fixtures, which were guaranteed as part of the I-Cup and WCL Championship calendar, Scotland’s summer slate featured two ODIs last month against Afghanistan – their first home ODIs in more than two years – with two more ODIs in September against Hong Kong. Though the home ODI fixture list is more than they had in 2015, it’s still not ideal.
“It’s difficult,” Cannon said. “If you look at our summer this year, we’ve got six days of one-day cricket and a four-day I-Cup on home soil and that’s it. Is that enough? No. However, that’s life. We need to accept that it’s life for this year and make sure that next year and the following years we have a fuller fixture list.
“In order to do that, we do need some cooperation from both the ICC, in terms of contextualising cricket, which is the dream, or with other nations recognising that Scotland are viable opposition and that we are credible and that we can compete on level terms with other nations, and then finding opportunities, because the Future Tours Programme has not many windows of opportunity. So we need to shoehorn ourselves into that in the future and then make sure that two, three, …
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