Hockey: Stars' Common aim

Scotland's senior hockey men are travelling to Austria almost fully tuned as the countdown to the Commonwealth Games in Delhi hots up.

The squad travel with confidence high after four straight victories over America, ranked 21st in the world.

Austria are 20th, three places ahead of Scotland and the squad's Edinburgh-based manager Eugene Connolly said: "We sat down after the Five Nations in France and decided that, in our seven remaining competitive games before Delhi, we wanted to win seven out of seven. We've now won four out of four. Winning becomes a bit of a habit and we want to go to Delhi on a high."

Scotland's Games opener is against world No.?1 team Australia. Current gold-medallists Pakistan follow.

Connolly added: "This really is our last chance to fine-tune things before the Games."

Scotland: James Cachia (Bowden), Mark Ralph, Chris Nelson, Iain Scholefield, Ross Stott, William Marshall, Kenny Bain, Alan Forsyth, Gordon McIntyre, Gareth Hall (all Kelburne), Vishal Marwaha (Western), Graham Moodie (Edinburgh University), Stephen Dick (Reading), Derek Salmond (Inverleith), Cameron Fraser (Grange), Niall Stott (East Grinstead), Ali McGregor (Loughborough University).