It’s 11.30 in a meeting room on the ground floor of Village Hotel in Edinburgh. Shane Burger, the new Scotland coach, is addressing the team about how he expects them to play in their opening one-day international against Afghanistan the next day and beyond.

“It is an exciting time,” he tells the squad. “Our job as coaches is to tell you that extra 10% that maybe you haven’t heard before.” Telegraph Sport is here too, and has been given unprecedented access to see how an international cricket team prepares.

Burger describes himself as an “attention to detail guy”. But while he has trawled through as much information he can find on his new team and their opponents alike, his pre-game Powerpoint presentation is about distilling his philosophy so that players are as clear as possible about what’s expected from them. This is an “open forum,” Burger says: players and other coaches are free to chip in whenever.

First it is the batting. If Scotland are batting first, their openers - skipper Kyle Coetzer and wicket-keeper Matthew Cross - are told to “assess that wicket at the Grange and just get a message back,” through asking a substitute player for new gloves or water. “And just say ‘right, the wicket’s pretty good, this is how we should look to play and this could potentially be par’. And that can continue.”