Scotland national cricket team
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| ICC status | Associate member with ODI and T20I status (1994) |
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| ICC region | Europe |
| WCL | One |
| Coach | Grant Bradburn |
| Captain | Kyle Coetzer |
| First international | |
| 7 May 1849 v All England XI at Edinburgh | |
| World Cup | |
| Appearances | 3 (first in 1999) |
| Best result | Group stage (1999, 2007, 2015) |
| World Cup Qualifier | |
| Appearances | 5 (first in 1997) |
| Best result | Winners, 2005 and 2014 |
| World Twenty20 | |
| Appearances | 3 (first in 2007) |
| Best result | Group stage (2007, 2009, 2016) |
| As of 12 March 2016 | |
The Scotland national cricket team represents Scotland in the game of cricket. They play their home matches at The Grange, Edinburgh.
Scotland became associate members of the International Cricket Council in 1994 after severing links with the England cricket team two years earlier. Since then, they have played in three Cricket World Cups (1999, 2007 and 2015) and three ICC World Twenty20 tournaments (2007, 2009 and 2016). However, their first win in either of these events did not come until they beat Hong Kong in the 2016 World Twenty20.Scottish cricket team is governed by Cricket Scotland.
Scotland have also played in every ICC Intercontinental Cup tournament, winning the inaugural edition in 2004. Between 2010 and 2013, the team competed in the ECB 40 as the Scottish Saltires.
Kyle Coetzer became captain of the side in November 2016 after Preston Mommsen who had captained the side since September 2014 stepped down. The coach is New Zealander Grant Bradburn, who took on the role in April 2014.
The first recorded cricket match in Scotland took place in Alloa in 1785. It would be another eighty years, however, before Scotland played their first full match, against Surrey in 1865, which they won by 172 runs.
The first Scottish Cricket Union was formed in 1879, and the national team beat Australia by 7 wickets three years later. The cricket union became defunct in 1883, and Grange Cricket Club took over the administration of the game until 1909. The first match against Ireland took place in Dublin in 1888, with the Irish emerging victorious. They also played South Africa, the West Indies, an all-Indian team, and New Zealand before the start of World War II.
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