Gus Mackay to be Cricket Scotland chief executive

He will start from 21 October, and succeeds Malcolm Cannon, who stepped down after four years in the role, Cricket Scotland confirmed on Thursday, 3 October.

Mackay comes with 17 years of experience in sports management, including with Worcester Warriors and Surrey County Cricket Club, where he was managing director, and Leicestershire County Cricket Club.

In his playing career, he took 75 wickets from 27 first-class games, and has one first-class century against his name, which came off just 45 balls.

Mackay said in a statement that he was keen on helping develop cricket in Scotland at an "exciting" time for the sport in the country. "I have been impressed with the clear vision, strategy and more importantly, commitment of the Board to achieve Full Member Status of the International Cricket Council," he said. "This will help us achieve our vision to make cricket mainstream in Scotland and thereby ensure the long term sustainability of the game here.

"Clearly cricket in Scotland is progressing in the right direction for both the men’s and women’s game, as demonstrated by the ICC rankings, while Scotland is regarded as one of the top Associate Countries."

Scotland's women's team failed to make the cut for the T20 World Cup, but the men's team will have their chance in October's ICC Men's T20 World Cup Qualifier in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.