Scotland captain confident against old friends

Scotland's stand-in captain Ryan Watson will be seeing a few familiar faces when his team takes on South Africa on Tuesday. Watson, who will lead the side because Craig Wright has flown home following the death of an aunt, is relishing the prospect of meeting Graeme Smith and Mark Boucher, who he played with at school level in South Africa.

"It will add a bit a bit of spice by the fact that I know Boucher and Smith quite well," Watson, who was born in Harare before moving to South Africa, said. "I went to school in East London with Mark, then moved to Johannesburg and captained Graeme there. He was always a young lad compared to me - he's come a long way since then."

Scotland were thrashed by Australia in their opening game in St Kitts after the defending champions reached 334 for 6 when they were sent in. "I don't think the decision [to put Australia in] was wrong," Watson told the BBC. "The covers were on a long time before the game and Paul Hoffmann bowled beautifully up front and could have got a couple of edges. They did get 330 but up until the 47th over they only had 270-280, so we lost it a little bit in the last three overs."

Watson hoped the games would get easier. "Every team, when it comes to the top eight, is going to be tough to beat so it just makes it an even bigger victory if you can turn one of them over," he said. "I suppose the only good thing when you play the number one ranked team [South Africa] is you get a little bit more hype behind it and that's always good for the development of the game in Scotland."