England beat Scotland in a warm up game at Edinburgh, on Saturday, by 7 wickets prior to their limited over Cricket series against Australia next week. After winning the toss Scotland elected to bat first. The openers were found struggling as James Anderson made the ball swing opener. Ryan Watson was sent back for a duck, as Swann took a catch off Anderson’s bowling, on the 4th ball of the innings. From there on Gavin Hamilton, who after a brief stint for England is back in Scotland, put on a good 2nd wicket partnership alongside Kyle Coetzer. Both showed glimpses of what the Scotland team had to offer. Both batsmen were cautious and made sure they outlived the shine of the ball. The pair seemed quite content to play out the initial overs without much runs. Hamilton exploited the cover area of the ground and played some extravagant cover drives, while Coetzer was more dominant on the leg side of the field. A number of deft touches and glance off his hips got him to 50 before being caught by Yardy off his own bowing, for 51 runs, with the score at 87. Coetzer scored eight boundaries for his maiden half century innings and the pro-batting period of the innings was pretty much over. This was because none of the batsmen who came down the order could make much of an impression, except for Dougie Lockhart. Josh Davey was in next but was soon sent back by Yardy for only 4 runs after being trapped leg before in front of the wicket. Yardy lept on bowling wicket to wicket as he went on to claim the wicket of Berrington, caught by Stuart Broad, scoring only 3 runs from 8 balls. http://blogs.bettor.com/Cricket-news-England-beat-Scotland-by-7-wickets-in-warm-up-game-a13104
