DUMFRIES may be reigning champions and Clydesdale favourites but Uddingston and West of Scotland are both keen to make their mark on this season’s Western Premier Division.

THE FIRST day of the second Investec Test between England and New Zealand was washed out yesterday following persistent rain at Headingley.

MATTHEW Hurst will be given a chance to open the bowling for Arbroath this afternoon as they prepare to host Stoneywood-Dyce in the CSL Eastern Premier Division.

FORFARSHIRE will be minus a potential match winner when they square up to Falkland at Forthill.

FIT-AGAIN Gordon Goudie is ready to put his injury frustrations behind him as the Saltires return to YB40 action with a Bank Holiday double header against Derbyshire and Surrey.

The only Edinburgh-based batsman to have recorded a century in Scottish Cup or Eastern Premiership cricket matches this season vowed today to use his latest representative honour as a springboard to a full-time contract.

Captain Alastair Cook believes the spectre of Kevin Pietersen’s return will create healthy competition in England’s batting line-up during the second Investec Test against New Zealand.

Australia batsman David Warner has been hit with the maximum fine possible after he pleaded guilty to breaching the Cricket Australia Code of ­Behaviour.

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.