Bruce switches from NZ cricket to Scotland
- Dave Worsley
- 1 day ago
- 2 min read
The international cricket career of Tom Bruce has taken a turn with a switch of allegiance from New Zealand to Scotland.
The Central Stags captain, and 2025 Stags and NZC men's Dream11 Super Smash Player of the Year, has been picked for Scotland ahead of their ICC Men's Cricket World Cup League 2 series in Canada.
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Scotland will face Canada and Namibia across four one-dayers in Ontario between 29 August and 6 September, with Bruce poised to make his One-Day International debut.
Bruce is eligible to wear the thistle through his Edinburgh-born father, Stephen and it won't be his first representative outing for the country - he previously represented Scotland's Men's Development squad in 2016, before making the Black Caps T20i squad the following year.
The 34-year-old has captained New Zealand A in recent seasons and helped win Plunket Shield and Ford Trophy titles as well. However the last time he played for the Black Caps was February 2020 against India at Mt Maunganui.
Bruce's international debut had arrived a few summers earlier in Napier, and all up he has played 17 T20is (even putting his hand up to keep wicket, at times) in scattered appearances for the Black Caps between 2016/17 and 2019/20 - striking at 122.36, and scoring two T20 International half centuries.
For the Stags, he now has more than 2,500 T20 runs, at a strike rate above 140 with 18 half centuries, and will continue to play for the team as normal.