Craig Wright (28/04/74)
Scotland's captain is a reliable all-round presence, a useful medium-pacer and sound accumulator if required with the bat. Wright's contributions are likely to come in a support role to the handful of Scots with county or England experience.

John Blain (04/01/79)
For Northamptonshire and Yorkshire, Blain has been a good enough seamer to play 38 first-class matches over 10 years. He is one of just two members of the current team to have taken part in Scotland's only previous World Cup campaign, having made his debut against Australia at Worcester in 1999.

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Dougie Brown (29/10/69)
Stirling-born Brown's nine-match one-day international career for England finished shortly before their abortive World Cup campaign on home soil in 1999. The all-rounder continued to ply his trade with distinction for Warwickshire until last year - and there is no reason to believe, even at the age of 37, he will not have his moments in the Caribbean this spring.

Gavin Hamilton (16/09/74)
Hamilton's performances with bat and ball for his native country in the 1999 World Cup caught the attention of the England selectors and led to his sole Test appearance in South Africa that same year. The all-rounder was found wanting, with the ball in particular, and struggled thereafter to regain his confidence. He lost his radar entirely at times with his medium-pacers, but Hamilton's left-handed middle-order batting remains very useful.

Majid Haq (11/12/83)
Haq's top-order batting is beginning to find its feet at this level and is complemented by his handy off-breaks.

Paul Hoffmann (14/01/70)
Hoffmann is still pretty quick at the age of 37 - enough to break the stumps twice in taking the first five Namibia wickets in one match early last summer. He will be hoping to give a few complacent World Cup batsmen the hurry-up.

Douglas Lockhart (19/01/76)
Former Oxford University wicket-keeper batsman Lockhart can give Scotland a bit of extra ballast in the middle overs if he gets the nod ahead of Smith.

Ross Lyons (08/12/84)
The Greenock-born slow left-armer is adapting to international cricket and beginning to manage a decent economy rate in recent one-dayers.

Neil McCallum (22/11/77)
McCallum's maiden first-class hundred against the United Arab Emirates early this year will have given him extra confidence going into the World Cup in the Scotland middle order.

Dewald Nel (06/06/80)
South Africa-born Nel is carving a role for himself as a useful first-change seamer for his adoptive country.

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Navdeep Poonia (11/05/86)
Poonia did enough with the bat for Warwickshire in one-dayers last summer to suggest he may be one of Scotland's best bets to score regularly at the required tempo - although he had a patchy start to the year in his country's assorted winter assignments.

Glenn Rogers (12/04/77)
Australian-born all-rounder who is capable of scoring useful lower-order runs and bowling tidy orthodox slow left-arm.

Colin Smith (27/09/72)
Either the experienced Smith or Lockhart will take the gloves - and both can be expected to add a few runs to their victims behind the stumps.

Ryan Watson (12/11/76)
Watson, born in what was is now Zimbabwe, confirmed his standing as one of Scotland's most reliable batsmen with a hundred to help them to victory over Canada in Mombasa this winter. He and Poonia have given a glimpse of the ability they must hope to display again to a wider audience.

Fraser Watts (05/06/79)
Scotland need Watts to kick on from a steady start which has brought him a reasonable haul of runs in his short ODI career so far. He has shown in one-day domestic cricket that he can do a job for his country.