World Cup: Former skipper Kyle Coetzer to assist Scotland captain Preston Mommsen

Former skipper Kyle Coetzer will assist captain Preston Mommsen in Scotland's World Cup squad after head coach Grant Bradburn named his provisional 24-man line-up.

Northamptonshire's Coetzer is one of five contracted county players lining up for the Scots, alongside Durham's Calum MacLeod, Rob Taylor of Leicestershire, Sussex's Matt Machan and Josh Davey of Somerset.

He led Scotland in 2013 but lost out through injury this year as Mommsen skippered the side in their qualification campaign for Australia and New Zealand.

We've got our goals of trying to take down at least one of the Test-playing nations because that's something we haven't ever done as an associate

George Munsey and Ruaidhri Smith and teenagers Gavin Main, Andrew Umeed and Mark Watt, a trio who have never even played a List A match, are the five uncapped players in New Zealander Bradburn's squad.

England's most-capped one-day international Paul Collingwood is on board as a specialist coach as Scotland attempt to upset the odds in a pool that also features the English, Australia, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Afghanistan.

Coetzer said: "We're over the moon with the group we're in. As well as England, we play the two host nations which should make for big crowds and a great atmosphere.

"We've got our goals of trying to take down at least one of the Test-playing nations because that's something we haven't ever done as an associate, but obviously playing against England will be a bit special."

Collingwood, a former England one-day captain, said: "If you look at the tournament with seven teams in a group, if you get a couple of wins confidence and momentum will grow.

"The guys have worked so hard in the last six months, they have been touring away and preparing and they are ready and going into the tournament confident that they have put that work in.

"You never know what can happen from then on in but they have the skill level there and they should be very confident." 

The selection team must cut the party to 15 by the January 7 deadline.

Squad: Preston Mommsen (c), Kyle Coetzer (vc), Richie Berrington, Frederick Coleman, Matthew Cross, Joshua Davey, Alasdair Evans, Hamish Gardiner, Gordon Goudie, Majid Haq, Moneeb Iqbal, Michael Leask, Matt Machan, Calum MacLeod, Gavin Main, George Munsey, David Murphy, Safyaan Sharif, Ruaidhri Smith, Robert Taylor, Andrew Umeed, Craig Wallace, Iain Wardlaw, Mark Watt.