Top cricketer Jacobi Robinson has accepted terms of a short-term playing contract with Scottish Division One side Strathmore Cricket Club, can confirm.

Robinson, who has returned to Somerset Cricket Club after spending only one season at Western Stars, will become the first Somerset player since the late Nigel (Choppa) Hazel to represent the Scottish club in the Strathmore League.

The 22-year-old all-rounder, who grabbed eight wickets in a losing cause for Somerset during last summer?s Cup Match, is scheduled to arrive in the UK early next month.

?This has always been a dream of mine . . . to play cricket overseas and hopefully I can now adapt to it well,? an elated Robinson told .

?Now I have a lot to prove to myself because this is a new challenge for me and hopefully my cricket will improve.?

Robinson will have to quickly acclimatise to the slower wickets in Scotland and cooler weather conditions.

?As long as I remain healthy everything should be okay,? he added. ?I just have to go out there with a positive attitude and maintain a good line and length and adapt to the conditions.?

He also hopes to improve on his batting, an area of his game which has been inconsistent in recent seasons.

?I know I can score a lot more runs and stake my claim as being a genuine all-rounder,? said Robinson, son of former Stars spinner Wayne (Spike) Richardson and grandson of former Social Club cricketer Eardley Richardson jr.

Hazel enjoyed successful playing stints at Strathmore and also Aberdeenshire where he scored 8,190 runs over an eight year period.

The late all-rounder?s son, Nigel jr, currently opens the batting at Strathmore.

Confirming Robinson?s arrival at Strathmore yesterday was fellow Bermudian, Arbroath CC executive and Scotland Under-15 national coach Clarence Parfitt.

?Strathmore have given Jacobi an opportunity and hopefully he will gain everything there is to gain from the experience,? said Parfitt, who took 115 Cup Match wickets for St.George?s between 1961 and 1981.

?I am here to help as many Bermudian cricketers as I possibly can because I got an opportunity (to play professionally in Scotland) from another Bermudian (the late Hazel). So it?s nice to be able to return the compliment.?

Robinson was a member of Bermuda?s victorious ICC Intercontinental Cup Americas Group squad in Toronto last August and also toured Dubai last January with the senior national team.

He also successfully completed cricket studies at the University of Port Elizabeth International Cricket Academy in South Africa in 2004, the same year he made his debut for Somerset in the annual mid-summer classic at Somerset.

Former St.George?s Cricket Club Cup Match skipper Cal (Bummy) Symonds said yesterday he was delighted to see Robinson receive an opportunity to broaden his cricket horizons.

?This is a wonderful opportunity for Jacobi and I wish him well,? said Symonds. ?It?s good to get our young players out of Bermuda so they can gain more exposure.?

Former Bermuda Cricket Board of Control (BCBC) president Alma (Champ) Hunt became the first ever Bermudian to play professional cricket in Scotland in 1934 at Aberdeenshire ? one year after undergoing trials with the West Indies Test team in Trinidad.

?The more young cricketers we can get out of here the better because this is the only way our cricket will improve in years to come,? added Symonds, the most successful skipper in the 104-year history of Cup Match.