From: firstname@lastname.oc.ku   
      
   On 7/28/2016 6:39 PM, David Edmunds wrote:   
   > On Friday, June 21, 2002 at 3:14:18 PM UTC+1, MacRobert wrote:   
   >> On Fri, 21 Jun 2002 09:14:03 GMT, ian-stewart paused   
   >> to reflect but wrote anyway:   
   >>   
   >> >From todays Glasgow Herald   
   >>>   
   >>> Scots are foreigners in England's green and pleasant   
   >>> land, according to the England and Wales Cricket Board.   
   >>>   
   >>> The board ruled that as far as the sport is concerned, Scots are not   
   >>> British, but are in the same "overseas" category as players from the   
   >>> likes of India, Sri Lanka, and the West Indies.   
   >>>   
   >>> The EWCB website contains a copy of the separate regulations.   
   >>> Paragraph 1.10 states: "Great Britain means England, Wales, the   
   >>> Channel Islands and the Isle of Man, but for the purposes of The   
   >>> Regulations Governing The Qualification of Cricketers to Play For   
   >>> England no part of Great Britain, other than England, shall be   
   >>> regarded as a country."   
   >>>   
   >>> http://www.theherald.co.uk/   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> Hooray!  Let the moat-digging begin!   
   >>   
   >> MacR   
   >   
   > Scots not allowed to play as we are not sufficiently British. As for me I   
   dinnae care at 'a.   
   >   
   > David Martin Edmunds   
   >   
   The post to which you are responding was made over 14 years ago.   
      
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