The Scottish Saltires in 2005 are playing in the Second Division of the totesport League, in what will be their last season in the English one-day league. They will also compete for a World Cup place in the ICC Trophy and in the first-class ICC Intercontinental Cup. They suffered the disappointment of their first Sunday League game, against Durham being abandoned without a ball being bowled. On 5 May they were then unceremoniously dumped out of the C&G Trophy by Worcestershire. Heavy totesport League defeats followed against Kent, Somerset, Surrey and Sussex, but they recovered to win their second game of the season in a fine effort at Taunton against Somerset. That was followed up by a tie against Derbyshire and a 19-run defeat against Leicestershire, the latter match being much less closely contested than the scoreline suggests. Returning to the National League against Leicestershire, they lost by seven wickets to stay bottom of the National League, and August started with another loss, to Yorkshire. A crowd-pleaser against the Australian cricket team was rained off, and a week later the team endured four National League losses within the space of a week. Then there were two weeks off, before the team continued on their losing ways against Warwickshire, and they also lost to Surrey to end the season. Players Yasir Arafat John Blain* James Brinkley Dougie Brown* Asim Butt Kyle Coetzer* Stuart Coetzer Gordon Goudie Cedric English Gavin Hamilton* Majid Haq Paul Hoffmann Steven Knox Douglas Lockhart Gregor Maiden Dewald Nel Colin Smith Simon Smith Ian Stanger Ryan Watson Fraser Watts Greig Williamson *These players play for other teams in the totesport League Tables totesport League totesport League Scotland v Durham (1 May) Match abandoned - Scotland (2pts), Durham (2pts) This match, which was due to be played at The Grange, Edinburgh, was rained off without a ball being bowled. (BBC news) Scotland v Worcestershire (4–5 May) Worcestershire beat Scotland by 10 wickets to progress to Round Two of the C&G Trophy The first day at The Grange saw no play because of rain. After losing the toss, Scotland were put in, and the bowlers immediately made it very difficult for Scotland. It took them six overs to make their first ten runs, and every time they tried to accelerate, they lost wickets. In the end, they could only muster 134 all out in 46.5 overs. Vikram Solanki and Stephen