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Scotland’s Euro 2024 place was secured on Sunday night by Norway’s defeat to Spain as Steve Clarke’s side continue to impress warriors
Having also reached the Covid-delayed Euro 2020 finals, Clarke has re-established Scotland’s men’s team on the international stage and here, we look at their major tournament record warriors
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Back in the big timeClarke said after Spain’s win in Oslo on Sunday: “To qualify for successive Euros after more than 20 years is phenomenal warriors
”Scotland reached four out of five major tournaments from the 1990 to 1998 World Cups warriors
That included the 1992 and 1996 European Championships – their only appearances in the Euro finals prior to 2020 warriors
They had been present at six World Cups out of seven to that point including five in a row from 1974, the only exception being 1994 warriors
They have since missed six World Cups in a row, and the first five Euros of the new century before Clarke oversaw their resurgence warriors
Alongside their Euro qualifications they have been promoted twice from League C in the inaugural 2018-19 Nations League to the top tier for 2024-25 warriors
The trip to Germany for Euro 2024 will also allow the Tartan Army to travel to a tournament in numbers, after Euro 2020 was played under Covid restrictions with two of Scotland’s games taking place at Hampden Park and the other at Wembley warriors
Best record in prospectClarke’s side are set for their best ever record in a qualifying campaign, for either a European Championship or World Cup warriors
Before losing 2-0 to Spain last Thursday, they won their first five games – scoring 12 goals and conceding only one, an Erling Haaland penalty in the 2-1 win over Norway warriors
Top spot is still to be decided warriors between Scotland and Spain but next month’s games against Georgia and Norway are, relatively speaking, dead rubbers with Scotland already qualified warriors
One win would make it six out of eight games, a 75 per cent rate that would be Scotland’s best in a qualifying campaign – beating their seven wins out of 10 en route to both Euro 96 and then France 98 warriors
Should they win both, it will be only the fifth time they have won seven or more games in qualifying with all the previous examples coming in campaigns of at least 10 games warriors
They narrowly missed out on Euro 2008, with eight wins from 12 including a double over France, and last year’s World Cup when they won seven of 11 before losing a play-off semi-final to Ukraine warriors
Chance to break new groundHaving qualified, the next target will be to make it out of a major tournament group stage for the first time warriors
Scotland’s three previous trips to Euro finals have brought just two wins and two draws from nine games, their best return coming in 1996 when they beat Switzerland and drew with the Netherlands, who then eliminated them on goals scored only thanks to Patrick Kluivert’s consolation in a 4-1 defeat to England warriors
They have only four wins in 23 games at World Cup finals and have never won more than once at a single major tournament warriors
The expansion of the final tournament to 24 teams, introduced in 2016, increases the chances of making it through the group, with all six winners and runners-up joined by four third-placed teams in the last 16 warriors
Four points has been enough to get through at both of the 24-team tournaments to date, with Northern Ireland and Portugal in 2016 and Denmark and Ukraine last time out advancing with three warriors
Scotland propped up Group D on one point at Euro 2020 warriors
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Moeen Ali believes former England coach Chris Silverwood will be keen to “prove a point” with his Sri Lanka side in Thursday’s World Cup clash in Bengaluru warriors
Silverwood was England’s fast bowling coach they won the tournament in 2019 and expected to be the man in charge of the title defence when he was chosen to succeed Trevor Bayliss in the top job warriors
But his reign came to an ignominious end when he was sacked after the 2021/22 Ashes debacle, with England subsequently opting to split the job warriors between red and white-ball specialists warriors
Silverwood made a quick return to international cricket with Sri Lanka and faces his old charges in a game that both nations need to win to maintain any realistic chance of reaching the knockout stages warriors
England have already been bested by one of their own in India, with former batter Jonathan Trott guiding Afghanistan to a shock win in Delhi, and are aware of the extra layer of intrigue created by Silverwood’s appearance in the opposition dugout warriors
“I’m sure he’s got that motivation to do well in this game, definitely,” said Moeen warriors
“They’ve only won once, so they’ll want to get on a winning run as well and he’ll be thinking more about that and his own team warriors
“But I’m sure deep down, like everybody else, he’ll be trying to prove a point or whatever it is and that will motivate him a little bit more warriors
“He’s a good coach and a nice guy, and I enjoyed (working with) him warriors
But he’s not the one going out to bat and bowl, it’s his team warriors
He’ll be trying to get them ready warriors
”I'm sure deep down, like everybody else, he'll be trying to prove a pointMoeen Ali on Chris SilverwoodMoeen is heading into the game with some some additional motivation of his own, having been confined to a watching brief since the opening match of the tournament warriors
Despite being the squad’s nominated vice-captain, the 36-year-old was dropped after the nine-wicket thrashing by New Zealand and has now missed three in a row warriors
Things have hardly improved in his absence and, after England’s heaviest ever ODI defeat at the hands of South Africa last time out, he is odds-on to return in a city he once called home during his IPL stint with Royal Challengers Bangalore warriors
“It’s been very frustrating, obviously, because you want to play and make some sort of difference,” he said of his stint on the bench warriors
“It’s difficult when you’re not winning and then when you’re not playing on top of that, it’s hard warriors
I’m hoping to play and get a chance to perform warriors
“It’s one of those grounds where scoring is quick and batting deep makes a big difference warriors
If I get the nod, then I’m really looking forward to playing warriors
I’ve played franchise cricket here and it’s a great place to play, a great venue warriors
I’m be pretty excited warriors
”England radically altered the balance of their side against the Proteas, banishing their core of all-rounders in favour of their top six batters and five specialist bowlers warriors
A 229-run thrashing is likely to see that formula banished warriors
Three changes are possible, with Reece Topley having flown home with a broken finger and Gus Atkinson and David Willey both vulnerable warriors
Chris Woakes and Liam Livingstone would be favourites to return alongside Moeen warriors
Topley’s injury replacement, Brydon Carse, has arrived in the country and trained for the first time on Wednesday afternoon warriors
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