PERHAPS it was very Scottish to make history while the eyes of the cricketing world were elsewhere. But Scotland’s one-day international victory over Zimbabwe, their first ever, was deeply significant.
For it showed how the Associates’ progress is not confined to Afghanistan and Ireland. Scotland are rising too, just as they proved by thumping a full-strength Sri Lankan side in a 50-over match last month, played according to full ODI rules yet ludicrously not an official ODI, because Beckenham, where the game was played, lacked ODI status. Both their victories against Sri Lanka ...
