Final week, Evans signed an expert contract with Cricket Scotland for the 2023-2024 season. Now he’s in line to play his first ODI since October 2021.
In accordance with a Cricket Scotland launch, “quite a lot of gamers with county contracts have been thought-about for choice however have been unavailable resulting from their commitments in home cricket throughout the early a part of the summer season”.
“It is shifting into winter over there [in Zimbabwe] simply now, and the circumstances are altering, and can be fairly spin-friendly, however the important thing factor can be for us to adapt to the circumstances and method the video games the best way we need to play them.”
Watson has a brand new backroom workers for the event. Graeme Beghin (batting & fielding lead) and Glenn Pocknall (bowling lead) will act as assistant coaches, with Gavin Cross becoming a member of the tour as physiotherapist.
The squad will fly to Pretoria in South Africa on Saturday, June 3, for a pre-tournament coaching camp. They may even play two warm-up video games towards Nepal and Netherlands, earlier than travelling on to Zimbabwe.
Scotland can be amongst ten groups within the Qualifiers preventing for 2 spots within the ODI World Cup in India later this yr. The eight others – other than hosts Zimbabwe – are West Indies, Sri Lanka, Eire, Netherlands, Oman, Nepal, USA and UAE.
Scotland squad: Richie Berrington (capt), Matthew Cross, Alasdair Evans, Chris Greaves, Jack Jarvis, Michael Leask, Tom Waterproof coat, Chris McBride, Brandon McMullen, George Munsey, Adrian Neill, Safyaan Sharif, Chris Sole, Hamza Tahir, Mark Watt
Katherine Fraser was one of many 9 ladies cricketers who signed annual contracts final week•ICC through Getty
Cricket Scotland gives annual contracts to ladies cricketers for first time
On Could 10, Cricket Scotland introduced males’s and ladies’s contracts for the 2023-24 season. It was the primary time that paid contracts have been provided to ladies gamers.
This builds on the introduction in 2021 to pay equal match charges to males’s and ladies’s gamers.
In all, fourteen males and 9 ladies cricketers signed contracts, with various bands recognising the wants of gamers and the organisation. The contracts run from April 1, 2023 to March 31, 2024.
Males’s contracts: Richie Berrington, Matthew Cross, Ally Evans, Chris Greaves, Jack Jarvis, Michael Leask, Chris McBride, Brandon McMullen, George Munsey, Liam Naylor, Safyaan Sharif, Chris Sole, Hamza Tahir, Mark Watt
Girls’s contracts: Abbi Aitken-Drummond, Priyanaz Chatterji, Katherine Fraser, Lorna Jack, Ailsa Lister, Megan McColl, Orla Montgomery, Hannah Rainey, Ellen Watson
