The final time Scotland’s ladies confronted England in an official fixture – certainly, the one time – was a one-day worldwide performed at Bradfield School in Berkshire in August 2001.
On that event Scotland have been on the top of a monumental thrashing – bowled out for simply 24 in response to England’s 262-7.
It’s testomony to how far ladies’s cricket has are available Scotland that simply over twenty years later Kathryn Bryce felt emboldened to bat first in opposition to England after she gained the toss.
Scotland could also be an Affiliate nation, with a fraction of the funding and assets of a full member like England, however they weren’t overawed by the event.
With the bat they posted a decent, if not particularly difficult, complete -not far shy of the common first-innings rating of 117 at this venue.
There have been some notable highlights because the Bryce sisters each performed fluently whereas Ailsa Lister heaved Sarah Glenn for a 72-metre six over mid-wicket – Scotland’s first most of the World Cup.
Scotland’s bowling struggled in opposition to the ability and crisp timing of Bouchier and Wyatt-Hodge, whereas their fielding was once more disappointing.
However for the climax to a debut World Cup marketing campaign this was a greater than first rate displaying and in not one of the matches have been they embarrassed.
Going ahead Scotland’s gamers, who’ve been contracted since 2022, would likely profit from extra matches in opposition to full members.
The England & Wales Cricket Board aren’t a charity, however that it has taken a World Cup for these sides to fulfill for the primary time in a T20 worldwide feels barely incongruous given their proximity.
Cricket Scotland needs to be banging down the door to get video games in opposition to their neighbours, in additional acquainted environment, inked into the calendar.
