However, he was a also a cricketer, his team Clydesdale that at the time had its ground at Kinning Park near to where he stayed and when it in 1872 formed a football section he switched playing allegiance, although retaining Queen's Park membership. It meant that he was not included in the eleven Queen's Park players, who took the field in Glasgow on 30th November that same year in the World's first international but, whilst in the first Scottish Cup Final in 1874 he would be in the Clydesdale team that would lose to Queen's Park, a year earlier he had been invited to and did play in the Scotland eleven, drawn still mainly from Queen's Park, that travelled to London to take on England once more, in a game that was lost but in which he scored Scotland's second ever goal. However, it was to be his only cap. He would play in two trials but was not selected again.