The second part of my preview of the new Scottish season.

What some of Scotland's leading players, coaches and officials are hoping for in the new campaign.

Neil Drysdale looks at the current staus of Test cricket and ponders the future for it.

Defeats by Afghanistan must finally make the authorities sit up and smell the despair among Scotland's long-suffering supporters

Scotland Gordon Drummond is under pressure as he struggles to find form on the tour of UAE.

Will the omission of Neil Carter from the WCL matches against Afghanistan come back to haunt Scotland?

The former Scotland captain, Craig Wright, has paid warm tribute to one of the grand old men of the Caledonian game, Gordon Baxter, who has died aged 95.

Preston Mommsen looks forward to the forthcoming series of matches against Afghanistan in the UAE.

Neil Drysdale talks to Calum Macleod on Scotland's prospects and ambitions in 2013.

After sixteen years in his adopted home Paul Hoffmann is returning with his family to the land of his birth.

Japan will be travelling to Scotland later this year and the venture will assist in raising cash for the charity "Cricket for Smiles"

Sport sometimes throws up remarkable lives and unexpected events but few characters have had a more profound impact on their pursuit than Tony Greig.

From Hoffmann's perspective, there hasn't been a better willow-wielder on the global stage in the last two decades.

For starters, Tennant is surely correct in his assertion that the present club-based tournaments in the various countries offer no realistic pathway.

Scottish and Irish officials have thrown their weight behind the creation of a new European cricket league.

In what is likely to provoke a heated debate, the Scotland selectors have named at least four English players, who qualify through having a Scottish parent, in their squad to tour South Africa next month.

Here are five things I feel must happen if the culture of under-achievement in Scottish cricket is to be transformed in the future.

If it had emerged 10 years, or even five years ago, that Neil Carter was making himself available for Scotland, the news would have been greeted with cheers in most quarters.

The Nunholm club have taken, not so much a bat as a battering ram, to the established order and produced a shock of seismic proportions in the game. Or, their success exposes the spiralling decline in standards in the west of the country

A look back at the past decade of Scotland's participation in the limited overs competitions.

Whenever there is a genuinely uplifting development in the sport, there tends to follow a wearily predictable thud, the whole positive mood will come crashing down like the House of Usher and normal service will be resumed.

At the climax of what has been another depressing week for Caledonian cricket, Neil Drysdale feels that a few players and officials should admit that they must do better.

West Indies legend Gordon Greenidge talks to Neil Drysdale about his time in Scotland.

Neil Drysdale reflects on the startling transformation between the game in the west of the country 15 or 20 years ago and how it looks today.

Ricky Bawa has been a stalwart figure in Scottish cricket for many years, whether captaining his beloved Uddingston, or fighting for greater recognition for the sport in his homeland.

Even at this stage, the bare details do little to explain the sheer spell-binding quality of the innings which Ryan Watson produced when Scotland met Somerset at a soggy Grange in May 2003.

I reckon it is time cricket learned lessons from their oval-ball counterparts in planning for the future.

The Netherlands' recent success prompts Neil Drysdale to ask should Scotland likewise be more global in their search for talent.

I talked with former Scotland captain Craig Wright about the famous win against Worcestershire in 1998.

Freuchie's appearance in the 1985 National Village Cup against Rowledge at Lord's, prompted a mass exodus out of the little Fife community and turned into one of the great occasions in Scottish sporting history.

As one of his country's most successful performers in the last decade, Haq is always worth sounding out when it comes to discussing the health of Scottish cricket and his hopes and ambitions for the future.

When they lined up against Oulton from Yorkshire in the quarter-finals, the afternoon turned into one of those sweet occasions where everything came together for the Scots.

A template for how Associate cricket might develop in future seasons, given that there is no reason why the likes of Scotland, Ireland, Wales and the Netherlands could not join forces to create a European event.

The failings of their top order almost cost them dear when they locked horns with the Englishmen of Etherley in a typically nerve-jangling tussle at the Public Park.

It might be premature to declare that the ICC Associates have caught up with the English counties, but the CB40 results over the Bank Holiday weekend testified to the fact that the gap is closing sharply.

Neil Drysdale suggests that the selection of the Scotland squad for the opening CB40 matches raises the question of whether the Scots have any long-term vision.

Freuchie famously marched to triumph in the National Village Cup at Lord's in 1985, but not without lashings of perspiration, a few dollops of brilliance from their idiosyncratic squad, and occasional shafts of good fortune.

Neil Drysdale on the differing approaches of Scotland and Ireland to their fixture calendar.

Ewan MacKenna's entertaining account of how Ireland's cricketers have soared into the stratosphere should be required reading for everybody involved in the development of the Scottish game at the moment.

Scotland's Majid Haq has declared that his country needs to set their sights higher in the future, instead of being satisfied with occasional victories against English counties and international rivals.

As the Indian batsman announces his retirement, Neil Drysdale looks back on his huge contribution to Scottish cricket.

There are enthusiasts, obsessives and then there are people who eat, breathe and sleep their passions and former Scotland star Paul Hoffmann fits squarely into the latter category when it comes to cricket.

Berrington's quiet resolve has shone through in the last few seasons, but he remains a modest individual in a team.

It was a reminder, for this genial Australian, of the period five years ago when his dreams of participating for Scotland in the 2007 World Cup were jeopardised after he contracted typhoid on a tour of Kenya.

If you stick a pin in a map of the world, the chances are that Colin Siller will have spent time there playing or coaching with a bat and ball for company.

They are the Lost Boys of Scottish cricket; the vast majority of the squad which turned out for their country at Under 19 level in 1999.

Pete Steindl has quietly been orchestrating a cricketing revolution in Scotland.

International cricket stands at the crossroads of either subsiding sleepily down a cul-de-sac of apathy and absent spectators or of the sport's administrators finally waking up to the fact that they are presiding over a global game.

CricketEurope looks at some of the best of the emerging talent in Scotland who are expected to make a big impression during the year ahead.