Sussex seamer Brad Currie and batter Michael English have been recalled by Scotland for their Cricket World Cup League 2 matches against Nepal and USA.<\/p>\n
Currie, 27, missed last month’s tour of Namibia with illness while Ferguslie captain English returns having hit a century on his only previous appearance against Namibia in July 2024.<\/p>\n
There is a maiden call-up for Ayr spinner Ollie Jones, 19, after impressing at the Under-19 World Cup but Hampshire batter Ali Orr is not in the group despite speculation he would be involved.<\/p>\n
Orr impressed with Scotland A in fixtures against Jersey last month and has not featured in any of Hampshire’s four County Championship matches this season.<\/p>\n
He joins a significant list including Chris McBride and Mackenzie Jones who are unavailable due to county or work commitments, or personal reasons.<\/p>\n
Scotland sit second behind the USA in the CWCL2 standings, and will face the league leaders and Nepal twice each in Kirtipur as they look to secure a place at next year’s global qualifier for the ICC Men’s World Cup.<\/p>\n
“It’s exciting to have the opportunity to travel to Nepal and play this series against two very strong sides,” said Scotland head coach Owen Dawkins. <\/p>\n
“The country is hugely passionate about cricket, and the crowds are always very vocal and fun to play in front of.<\/p>\n
“We’re very familiar with our hosts after playing them in Dundee last summer and then facing them at the recent ICC T20 World Cup, which was a fantastic game that we didn’t quite come out on the right side of. <\/p>\n
“They are extremely talented, as are the USA team who sit top of the CWCL2 standings, so we know we’ll have to play to our best to beat both sides.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sussex seamer Brad Currie and batter Michael English have been recalled by Scotland for their Cricket World Cup…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":567454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-568645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/567454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}