Story Middlesex, Back To The Top|Middlesex Press Release

[harrisb]

2009:
2nd Bottom of division 2 of the County Championship
Out of T20 Cup in Group Stage
Top-Half of Pro40 Division 2


Middlesex are going through their toughest time yet, after winning the T20 Cup in 2008, Middlesex have really slipped. In fact, their best performance was in the Pro40, in which they still looked like a mediocre team.

Now, Middlesex are looking to turn things round, after the ECB announced plans to allow more International cricketers into the County set-up, Middlesex have set about signing the best of the best.

Rumours of signing the Deccan Chargers Star Adam Gilchrist have been rife, and with the ability and cash to sign up to 5 Internationals, Jonathan Agnew has been quoted as saying that, 'Middlesex have the ability and financial power to rise back to the top'.

 

[harrisb]

ECB Press Release

Broadcasting rights for this years County Championship have remained with Sky Sports, with Highlights to be broadcast for free on the PlanetCricket website.

Another major announcement from the ECB,

The International Players who have signed to play for the teams have been finalised, here is the list.

Derbyshire
Nathan bracken
Ross Taylor

Durham
Shiv Chanderpaul
David Warner
Shane Bond
JP Duminy
Kumar Sangakkara

Essex
Danish Kaneria
Ry Ten Doeschate
T Dilshan
Denesh Ramdin

Glamorgan
Brian Lara
Herschelle Gibbs
Peter Siddle
Shakib Al Hasan

Gloucestershire
Suresh Raina
Zaheer Khan

Hampshire
Yuvraj
Marcus North
Nathan McCullum
Majid Haq

Kent
Wayne Parnell
Nuwan Kulasekara
Ramnaresh Sarwan

Lancashire
Ashwell Prince
VVS Laxman
Sulieman Benn
MS Dhoni

Leicestershire
Rohit Sharma
Ben Hilfenhaus
Brad Hodge

Middlesex
Adam Gilchrist
Subramaniam Badrinath
Ajantha Mendis
Mohammed Ashraful
Phil Hughes

Northants
Ricky Ponting

Notts
David Hussey
Mitchell Johnson
Sourav Ganguly

Somerset
Justin Langer
Brendon McCullum
Shoaib Malik

Surrey
Younus Khan
Mark Boucher
Hashim Amla
James Hopes

Sussex
Corey Collymore
Piyush Chawla
Dwayne Bravo

Warwickshire
Chris Gayle

Worcestershire
Fidel Edwards
Angelo Matthews

Yorkshire
Mahela Jayawardene
Sachin Tendulkar
Brett Lee

As you can see, some of the leading international cricketers have signed up for this, and it shows that England is still firmly on the international scene.

 

[Gary123]

Good start!
Will look forward to this journey of Middlesex.

 

[harrisb]

well, my predictions are that they might have a okish season in the first year, but, don't expect me to win every game.

 

[Sartaj]

Gilchrist?
What a way to shake things up!

 

[Aditya]

Gilly? Wow! Suddenly really nice move dude.
Will Really make story interesting. I hope you don't leave this story in a mid-way.
Best of luck looking forward to this.

 

[harrisb]

although middlesex have signed gilchrist, I tried to spread the best out as evenly as possible, so not giving middlesex the best players.

 

[harrisb]

Middlesex Announce 2010 Sponsors​

Speaking at the announcement, new signing Adam Gilchrist was pleased and delighted that Middlesex have agreed sponsorship deals with Adidas and Vodafone.
'Obviously it is great news, the team will look great in the new kit, and with the added financial income, maybe more signings will arrive over the next few years.'

Gilchrist also added that he was at Middlesex 'for the long haul', which Angus Fraser, the managing director of Middlesex CCC has hailed as 'great news'. Another player eager to show their potential this season who was at the announcement was Phil Hughes, the Australian opener, who was spotted in the nets with Tyron Henderson, who was busy practising his bowling ahead of the upcoming County Season.

Tomorrow, the ECB are set to announce the Summers fixtures, and Middlesex are launching their new Adidas branded kits for the new season. [/CENTER]

 

[cricket22]

what are you using for this?

 

[harrisb]

c07, i suppose i should put that in the prefix.

 

[MaD]

Good start, hopefully you won't back out like 99.9% of the people do

 

[harrisb]

Middlesex 2010 Fixtures Announced

LVD2 - Liverpool Victoria County Championship Division 2
CGGC - C&G Group C
T20C - Twenty20 Cup Group C
P402 - Natwest Pro40 Division 2


Apr 23 - CGGC - Leicestershire vs. Middlesex

Apr 26 - LVD2 - Middlesex vs. Warwickshire

May 1  - CGGC - Sussex vs. Middlesex

May 3  - LVD2 - Glamorgan vs. Middlesex

May 7  - CGGC - Middlesex vs. Kent

May 9  - LVD2 - Middlesex vs. Sussex

May 17 - LVD2 - Leicestershire vs. Middlesex

May 21 - CGGC - Gloucestershire vs. Middlesex

May 24 - LVD2 - Kent vs. Middlesex

May 28 - CGGC - Middlesex vs. Ireland County

May 31 - LVD2 - Middlesex vs. Yorkshire

Jun 4  - CGGC - Middlesex vs. Worcestershire

Jun 7  - LVD2 - Warwickshire vs. Middlesex

Jun 11 - CGGC - Middlesex vs. Surrey

Jun 18 - CGGC - Hampshire vs. Middlesex

Jun 20 - LVD2 - Middlesex vs. Derbyshire

Jun 25 - CGGC - Middlesex vs. Yorkshire

Jun 27 - T20C - Kent vs. Middlesex

Jun 28 - T20C - Middlesex vs. Yorkshire

Jun 30 - T20C - Sussex vs. Middlesex

Jul 1  - T20C - Middlesex vs. Gloucestershire

Jul 4  - T20C - Middlesex vs. Sussex

Jul 6  - T20C - Glamorgan vs. Middlesex

Jul 7  - T20C - Middlesex vs. Kent

Jul 11 - T20C - Yorkshire vs. Middlesex

Jul 14 - LVD2 - Sussex vs. Middlesex

Jul 19 - LVD2 - Middlesex vs. Leicestershire

Jul 23 - P402 - Kent vs. Middlesex

Jul 30 - P402 - Middlesex vs. Gloucestershire

Aug 1  - P402 - Middlesex vs. Sussex

Aug 2  - LVD2 - Derbyshire vs. Middlesex

Aug 6  - P402 - Middlesex vs. Yorkshire

Aug 15 - P402 - Glamorgan vs. Middlesex

Aug 16 - LVD2 - Middlesex vs. Gloucestershire

Aug 22 - LVD2 - Yorkshire vs. Middlesex

Sep 1  - LVD2 - Middlesex vs. Kent

Sep 4  - P402 - Middlesex vs. Warwickshire

Sep 6  - LVD2 - Gloucestershire vs. Middlesex

Sep 12 - P402 - Leicestershire vs. Middlesex

Sep 17 - P402 - Derbyshire vs. Middlesex

Sep 20 - LVD2 - Middlesex vs. Glamorgan

Numerous matches this season will test the strength of every county to the maximum, A long FC Championship, lasting from April 20th to September 20th, a rather quick Twenty20 Cup which will be over in just under 3 weeks. The ECB has announced that it will scrap the idea of dividing the T20 into 3 regional groups, and has made it a national Group A, B and C tournament. The same has happened with the 50-Over tournament, which has been put into Divisions 1+2.
Andrew Strauss was at the announcement, and the England and Middlesex opener was happy to see that he would play more county cricket this year as it was being mostly shaped around the International summer, and that he would only miss the Twenty20 Cup, because of the 2 Test Series against Bangladesh, he was quoted as saying, 'It's great news, most of the past seasons, i have played in the first 2 games, and then been shipped of on a busy International Summer'.

All this ahead of the unveiling of Middlesex's 2010 FC and OD kits at Lords later on today.

 

[harrisb]

Middlesex Launch 2010 Adidas Kits​

The new Adidas Middlesex FC and OD kits have been launched at Lords today, with new sponsor Vodafone appearing on a Middlesex shirt for the first time.

Speaking at the launch, Tyron Henderson was interviewed, and he is rather pleased to see that Middlesex have kept him for the upcoming season, even though they had the money to bring in a better player than him, he said that it shows real loyalty and he wants to repay the club by helping them to gain promotion to Division 1 of the Championship. Another figure who was at the launch was Subramaniam Badrinath, who is another of Middlesex's new signings for the season which begins with Middlesex playing Leicestershire in the C&G Trophy on Friday. He said that he can't wait to get out there, even though he is more known for his excellent performances in the IPL, he wants to prove himself as a natural cricketer who can play in both Test's and One-day games as he pushes for a permanant place in the Indian national team.

Well, that's all for now, but we'll be back tomorrow with the first game of Middlesex's season in the C&G trophy away against Leicestershire.​

 

[harrisb]

Middlesex Fail To Deliver In The 1st Innings

Huge dissapointment in the Middlesex dressing room, Andrew Strauss won the toss on a good batting pitch and chose to bat, however, as soon as the openers Gilchrist and Strauss walked out, the cloud came over, and so came the wind. The swing from the opening bowlers was near impossible, which is probably why Adam Gilchrist fell for a duck. However, Strauss and Hughes had other ideas and began to settle down, but unfotunately, it couldn't last for ever, and Strauss was the next to go with the score at 49/2, which became 50/3 a couple of deliveries later, Owais Shah, batting at 4, decided to attempt to hit his 3rd ball for a six, failed, and holed out to the man at mid-wicket.
Badrinath went for 14, and the rest of the middle order collapsed within a devastating spell of bowling between Iain O'Brien and Claude Henderson. In fact, the middle order made only 20 runs between them, mainly down to Badrinath's 14. Middlesex will have to practice on their batting to improve on this disaster.
A bright moment in the innings, was Phil Hughes, who went to 50, and was pretty much the whole reason why Middlesex scored over 100. He eventually fell for 57, after pushing his luck too far and eventually having his middle stump removed.
Ajantha Mendis, another of Middlesex's international signings, came in and had an entertaining brief innings, in which he lead the lower order attack against the Leicestershire bowlers, until he ran out of partners due to Claude Hendersons 4 fer.

Middlesex were eventually all out for 126 from 31 overs, and this should be an easy target for Leicestershire to chase down.

Stay tuned for the second innings highlights coming soon.​

 

[Gary123]

126 is really a low score.
They will have to bowl exceptionally well to make a match of this.
Nice Highlights,something new.
KIU