Michael Robert Leighton Blair is first team captain for Edinburgh and was selected for the 2009 British and Irish Lions tour of South Africa. A former pupil of Edinburgh Academy, Blair played club rugby first for Edinburgh Academicals and then for Boroughmuir before joining the professional ranks with Edinburgh in 2002. Blair's impact in season 2009/10 was disrupted by an ankle injury, but he recovered to play a full part in Scotland's successful summer tour of Argentina.

The gifted scrum-half signed a new contract with his hometown club in February 2010 that will keep him at Murrayfield until 2012. Mike has plenty of impressive history with the national stadium. He was outstanding in Scotland’s victory against France in their opening game of the 2006 RBS 6 Nations, making several searing breaks, and followed that up with another impressive appearance in his next Murrayfield game – the 18-12 defeat of England. He was named as Edinburgh's Player of the Year at the Scottish Rugby Awards Dinner in May 2006.

In November 2004 he made a try-scoring introduction from the Scotland bench in the historic 100-8 win against Japan at Perth. In May 2005 he was impressive in Scotland’s first-ever win against the Barbarians at Pittodrie in Aberdeen, setting up Sean Lamont’s try, and he scored two tries in the equivalent match against the invitation club a year later at Murrayfield. He made his Rugby World Cup debut when he started against the USA in 2003. Earlier that year his vision and pace were stamped all over his second try for Scotland, against Italy in the Rugby World Cup Countdown Test. In 2002 he had made a try-scoring debut for Scotland against Canada on the tour of North America. He made that tour after scoring a 60-metre try in the non-cap match against the Barbarians at Murrayfield. He also made a try-scoring appearance as a substitute in Scotland A’s 13-19 defeat by their French counterparts in March 2002. In 2001 he represented Scotland in the IRB Sevens in London, where he was the tournament’s top try-scorer.

He has represented Scottish Schools and Scotland at under-19 and under-21 levels and was part of the Scotland sevens squad at the Manchester Commonwealth Games in 2002.