Despite a small population of only 5.25 million, the skirt-wearing and heavily freckled angries who live north of Hadrian’s Wall have produced many great footballers, three of the best managers in the history of that sport, and some wonderful rugby players. Their contribution to cricket has been modest however. With this in mind the cricketing sophists at TFT HQ have put together the following XI of Scotland’s greatest ever cricketers: Mike Denness – Unusually for a Scotsman, Lanarkshire...
Just when you thought it was curtains … day two at Trent Bridge
At approximately 4.30 yesterday afternoon, the prospect of India winning this game was weighing heavily on our minds. Defeat seemed inevitable. The tourists were just four wickets down, and their lead had already stretched to forty. Enter Stuart Broad. Goodbye, Yuvraj (we don’t like you very much by the way), Dhoni, Harbhajan (see Yuvraj), and Kumar – the last three dismissed in a memorable hat-trick. No doubt India fans will claim that Broady’s hat-trick was illegitimate, as Harbhajan’s lbw...
