Andy Tennant's call for greater focus on Twenty20 cricket in Scotland is to be applauded. It is also long overdue.
The moment it should have occurred to Cricket Scotland that the 20-over game was the most fertile furrow to plough was not last week when the ICC confirmed that their chief executives committee wants a 10-team World Cup and a bigger World Twenty20.
It was in 2008, when the Indian Premier League was born and bastardised versions seemed to spring up from every corner. Suddenly Australians were taking Twenty20 seriously and we were awash with talk of Champions Leagues and freelance cricketers earning five figures for every six.
The revolution has not subsumed the sport like it threatened to in those dizzying days, but cricket's most economically viable future was already being mapped out along evening, floodlit, high-octane lines. And the inevitably of less powerful nations being encouraged to embrace the short format was painted in stark terms by the ICC.
We must challenge their push in this direction, for it is too extreme a resolution to confine the training of players to bowling slow bouncers and yorkers and teaching batsmen to long-handle length balls over cow corner. The Intercontinental Cup is under threat, and I wouldn't mourn its demise. It has no place in preparing a Scottish team to make an impact on world cricket as it stands today.
Test matches are permanently out of bounds, and all the four-day round-robin does is make young players a little readier for the rigours of the county championship, as well as - more usefully - keeping full-time players busy and fostering a good sense of morale.
But for Scotland to become a force respected by the elite, we need to be channelling specific energies into the twin targets of ODI and Twenty20 cricket, where territorial gains and profitable events are not mere pipe dreams. Now we just need the ICC board to rescue an apparently abandoned vision.
It's the indifference that rankles most. The world is replete with accomplished cricket writers and some have, from time to time, pondered the game's globalisation. Peter Roebuck has recommended that Ireland become the 11th Test nation. Matthew Engel has told Scotland and Ireland they will never be stronger than peripheral English counties.
The truth resides somewhere in between, but at least in these two cases the issue was diligently explored. In recent weeks, since the ICC outlined its regressive determination to shrink the World Cup to an exclusive stature not seen since 1992, misinformation has run wild and none of the top writers has given consideration to the way the reformation of the ODI showpiece will hinder the game's growth.
England is particularly blessed with gifted scribes - they have outnumbered world-class homegrown players for some time now - but their collective output is compromised by the group's eagerness to reach consensus about anything new. And the consensus in this sorry case is that the World Cup would be more interesting without the merest possibility of romantic outcomes.
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