Tom Peterkin on more cricket

The Scottish National Party would appear to be attempting to win over Scotland's cricketing community after Sandra White's silly complaint about alleged excessive coverage of the Ashes series.
Tomorrow Shona Robison will go to Arbroath United Cricket Club's picturesque ground Lochlands Park to lend her support to the Scotland team playing in the European under 15 cricket championships.
Robison is quoted as saying: "Cricket has a long and proud history in Scotland and is one of our fastest growing sports."
She has also reminded cricketers that the Scottish Government has recently come up with £415,000 for the game.
A somewhat different view than that expressed by White when she suggested that cricket was a minority sport in Scotland.
Howzat for a clip round the ear, Sandra?
It's perhaps not surprising that Robison knows about Scotland's cricketing tradition. Her husband the SNP MP Stewart Hosie has occasionally turned out for Panmure rugby club, a fine sporting institution that shares its ground and bar facilties with Forfarshire Cricket Club in Broughty Ferry.