Scots go tartan barmy

ENGLAND were the shower of Scotland after losing to the Auld

Enemy for the first time ever by six runs in a Braveheart-stopper.

Calum Macleod was the Highland hero with a remarkable 140 not out to set up a record score of 371-5, while Safyaan

Sharif completed the win when he trapped

Mark Wood lbw to spark a pitch invasion.

“We didn’t play anywhere near to our best,” said England one-day skipper Eoin Morgan.

“We were miles off where we expect to be and didn’t do enough to win. We didn’t deserve to win.

“We might have scraped past them and won, but there were still quite a few mistakes that we need to rectify and learn from ahead of the Australia series.

“It is huge for Scotland.

I’m not hugely disappointed about it because it was a good competitive game and that is all we could have asked for.”

Dubliner Morgan may feel philosophical about the result, but for an associate nation to put so many runs on the board and go on to beat the World No.1-ranked team is a cause for embarrassment.

Like their football fans who saw Scotland beat England’s World Champions in 1967, there were jovial claims to the No.1 ranking for a nation cruelly denied a place in next year’s 10-team World Cup.