Middlesex v Northamptonshire: County Championship Division Two – Match Recap
A rain interrupted game of the County Championship Division Two between Northamptonshire and Middlesex ended in a draw at the County Ground, Northampton in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013 on Friday, August 26, 2011.
Only two innings were completed over the course of four days due to heavy rainfall at Northampton. There was nothing much the two teams could have done in the match, as it resulted in a draw.
Middlesex’s skipper http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Chris-Rogers-c1249 won the toss and opted to field first. He expected the bowlers to get some assistance due to the overcast weather conditions. However, the opposition still got away with a decent first innings total.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Robin-James-Boyd-Moss-c86323 Newton. The former failed to get going and was dismissed for 8 runs.
However, the innings was steadied by Newton and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/KJ-Coetzer-c1798 with a 54-run stand for the second wicket. The latter failed to make most of the start he got to his innings and was dismissed after collecting 22 runs.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Alex-Wakely-c988 was the third wicket to fall in the home team’s innings, as he was sent back to the pavilion after adding 14 runs to the total.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/David-Sales-c1337 offered some support to Newton, as the pair gathered 61 runs for the fourth wicket partnership.
Sales was unable to covert his start into a big one and was dismissed after scoring 26 runs. He was followed by the team’s captain http://www.senore.com/Cricket/James-Middlebrook-c1651. The pair scored 16 and 5 runs respectively.
Although wickets kept on tumbling at one end, Newton kept on playing some delightful strokes in his innings and completed a terrific half-century. He ended up with 113 runs with the help of 12 boundaries.
An unbeaten knock of 42 runs from wicketkeeper batsman http://www.senore.com/Cricket/David-Murphy-c53110 guided the home team’s total to 276 runs.
West Indian seamer http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Corey-Collymore-c1283 picked up three wickets in the innings for Middlesex.
Once the visitors came out to bat, the pitch had eased out to a great extent for the batsmen. However, rain kept on hindering the game, which did not allow both sides to fight for a result.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sam-Robson-c2421 put together 143 runs for the first wicket. They scored 95 and 37 in their respective outings.
The star of the innings was middle-order batsman http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Dawid-Malan-c1344, who ended up being the top scorer of the innings with 113 runs. His solid knock included 17 boundaries.
A couple of half-centuries from Rogers and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Ollie-Rayner-c2139 guided the team’s total to 479/8 before the declaration was made.
Northamptonshire’s Middlebrook picked up five wickets in the innings and his side managed 22/0 in their second outing before the game ended.
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