Tom Lappin's Sporting Week: Whitewash Prospect a Delicious One for Warne and Mcgrath

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AH, IS that the heady scent of another World Cup year rising from the ashes of a somewhat underwhelming 2006? Actually it's probably the ammonic whiff of the capital's wynds after the traditional mass Hogmanay micturition. If you are not middle-class though, perhaps you need reminding that 2007 is in fact a double World Cup year, with the cricket and rugby global competitions soon to set the pulses of pin-striped bankers and middle-management sorts racing in a manner usually reserved for the announcement of a climb on the FTSE.

Cricket, such a surreal sport that it's not uncommon for Scotsmen to support the England team, has lurched into one of its habitual troughs given the dismaying hammering presently being endured by Andrew Flintoff's hapless defenders of the Ashes. Those Scots unmoved by the crack of Kookaburra upon willow (let's say 99.85 per cent of the Caledonian population) might stir themselves to absorb some of this week's final Test from Sydney though, if only in the interests of scouting out the Scotland team's imminent opponents.

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Tom Lappin's Sporting Week: Whitewash Prospect a Delicious One for Warne and Mcgrath

On 14 March, Scotland's first match in the World Cup, in the eminently civilised environs of St Kitts and Nevis, in the brand new Warner Park stadium, pits them a...

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