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Loading ...As a long standing Middlesex supporter/member exiled in Gloucestershire. I find it difficult to understand why the club consistently promises but doesn’t deliver. The 20/20 being the obvious exception. I totally agree. It’s so frustrating.
Middlesex’s woes
By Will 2 years ago, at the start of September Add your comment below
I don’t know what’s going on at Middlesex. One minute they’re winning the Twenty20 Cup and heading to India for the Champions League. The next, they’re trying to tempt South Africa’s Mickey Arthur into a new post of managing director (though Angus Fraser is the current front-runner). For a brief few weeks, Middlesex re-tasted glory – the glory that is rightfully theirs, having nobly sacrificed their own form for the past 17 years to allow the other prissy teams (Lancashire, Sussex, Warwickshire – all those tramps) some success. They want this glory back. It is theirs, they play at the home of cricket, and justice will be done.
Well, it turns out that justice will not be served just yet. News comes through that Ed Joyce has turned down the captaincy; Shaun Udal has accepted the captaincy; Dawid Malan, the club’s brightest prospect since Owais Shah, might be off to Warwickshire. And poor old Nick Compton’s had enough and might be splitting to Somerset.
It nearly makes me want to support Durham on a full-time basis. And perhaps I will if we lose Malan.
Tags: county-cricket, dawid malan, ed-joyce, middlesex, nick compton, shaun-udal |
2 Responses to “Middlesex’s woes”
September 3rd, 2008 at 1.47 pm
November 4th, 2008 at 7.43 am
and now they’ve lost Joycey, too – are we sad or not sad? In Australia its worked out quite well for some players to switch state sides… does that work for counties too? (Altho I still think Katich’s karma will catch up with him some time for dumping the state in which he was born.)
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