ANOTHER season passes within a blink of an eye, at least for most of us.

WHEN the fixture calendar came up with the Scotland versus England international match, my mind could not help but wander to great contests between the countries in other sports.

IHAD been looking forward to the past few days being crammed full of cricket, giving me ample opportunity to talk about how Scotland had taken a large step towards the Intercontinental Cup finals and climbed the one-day international rankings after defeating Kenya, a team above us on the table.