Currie is the brother of Scott – the Scotland bowler who was called up by England last year.
They both qualify for Scotland via their Scottish dad, having grown up on England’s south coast. Left-armer Brad studied sports psychology at Bournemouth University.
A lifelong fan, Brad was at the Cherries’ 3-2 win over Liverpool at the Vitality Stadium – when Amine Adli scored a 95th-minute winner against the Premier League champions – the day he got the call from coach Owen Dawkins to tell him he had made Scotland’s World Cup squad.
“I said to my mate: ‘I know exactly what this is, but I can’t pick this up because I won’t get any signal,” Currie says.
“I got to the phone later and Dawks said: ‘That was a good result, wasn’t it?’
“I said: ‘Yeah, and I hope you’re not going to ruin my mood now.'”
Having been pipped at qualifying by the Netherlands and Italy, Scotland got a place at this World Cup when Bangladesh opted to boycott the tournament.
The preceding weeks were uncertain, filled with claims and counterclaims about whether the Tigers would take part and what it would mean for Scotland if they did not. Even the players were not immune.
“I was at Sussex training in the indoor school and was asking all of the powers that be and the coaching staff,” Currie says.
“It was crazy to have people saying we were going. I just thought, ‘you know more than me and I am one of the players in the official Scotland group chat’.”
As a county pro at Sussex, Currie was fortunate he had been training through the winter.
Bowlers’ workloads are notoriously important to manage, however, and Scotland’s focus switched from the Cricket World Cup League 2 at the end of March to a T20 World Cup in India at the start of February.
“I don’t know what date it officially got announced but the two days after were the weekend and I just did nothing,” he says.
“My girlfriend’s family were like: ‘Should you not be training? Should you not be doing something?’
“You can’t cram in. You just will get injured. It is not like a school test where you can cram in revision.”
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