INDIA is mulling a law to deal with spot-fixing in sport following last week’s arrest of cricketers and bookmakers, government officials said yesterday.

Stuart Broad produced an irresistible spell of new-ball bowling to kick-start New Zealand’s collapse to 68 all out as England won the first Investec Test by 170 runs.

Cricket Australia has reported David Warner for a breach of its code of behaviour after the New South Wales opening batsman engaged in an argument with a journalist on Twitter.

FREUCHIE skipper Scott Birrell hailed the killer instinct of his side after their precious cross-Tay triumph over Dundee HSFP.

SCOTLAND’s long wait for an official ODI win against a Test nation goes on after yesterday’s clash with Pakistan was wrecked by rain.

THE beauty of Test cricket is a match rarely moves constantly in the direction of one side. For all morning and most of the afternoon England had wrested this match back from New Zealand and courtesy of a splendid partnership of 123 between Jonathan Trott and Joe Root were in the process of building a dominant lead.

Pakistan provided David Murphy with another tough induction into international cricket on Friday, with the tourists’ 96-run victory over Scotland illustrating the slim margins for error available in the pursuit of that elusive upset.

CRICKET Australia says it is attempting to contact Test opener David Warner over reported comments he made on Twitter in terse and often angry exchanges with two journalists.

NEW Scotland cricket captain Kyle Coetzer insisted his team had got it half right in the first of the weekend’s one-day internationals with Pakistan at Raeburn Place.

James Anderson joined Test cricket’s elite 300 club, on a tough day otherwise for England against New Zealand at Lord’s.

Experienced all-rounder Jan Stander returns to the Stoneywood-Dyce line-up for the north-east derby this afternoon against Aberdeenshire in the CSL Eastern Premier Division.

IT is almost a generation since the Lanarkshire clash between Drumpellier and Uddingston would have been regarded as the match of the day, even on the west side of the country, but this Langloan encounter certainly fits the bill.

SCOTLAND’s wait for a win against a cricketing superpower continues after Pakistan cruised to an easy 96-run win at a sunny Grange yesterday.

TEENAGER Duncan Anderson has earned a place in Heriot’s line-up for an East Premiership clash at Arbroath tomorrow after one of the more unusual cricketing “centuries” compiled last weekend.

ENGLAND retreated into a position of extreme risk avoidance on a ponderous first day of the Investec Test series against New Zealand at Lord’s.

JOHN Blain last night backed Majid Haq to claim his Scotland wicket record, and admitted that he would be delighted to surrender the honour.

Not only will it be his home Scotland cricket debut against Pakistan at Raeburn Place tomorrow but, for Yorkshire-based seamer Iain Wardlaw, an opening delivery will be the first-ever bowled by him in 
earnest north of the Border.

LORD’S is set to witness a battle of the giants when Stuart Broad and Steven Finn take on New Zealand opener Peter Fulton in the first Investec Test.

FREDDIE Coleman has been rewarded for his half-century against Essex with a call up to the Scotland squad for this week’s two one-day internationals against Pakistan.

FA CUP winner Shaun Maloney yesterday sent a message of hope to his old cricketing team-mate Kyle Coetzer after he was appointed Scotland cricket skipper.