We got out of jail thanks to Tim Phillips who yet again showed a calmness in a batting crisis, whatever his limitations in 4 day cricket is well worth his place in 1 day cricket. Middlesex should have got around 180/190 but once Morgan was out lost their way a bit as our bowlers clawed us back into it, some shoddy fielding at times notably from Ryder but a fine run out from Reece who also bowled excellently to Christian before getting him out.
Yet again we froze against Ravi Patel who always bowls well against us, Podmore too bowled very well but our batting was fragile (sounds familiar?) bar Pettini, Tendo & Phillips, still a win is a win & 2/3 more should see us qualify at the very least.
One final thing - I had to complain to a Steward about a group of 7 orange clad young men who were standing up far too much in the Hayes Close end (almost all the time towards the end) what with continual visits to the Bar & toilet as well making it difficult to watch the game at times which they clearly weren't!!. To be fair they were spoken to & heeded the words (for about 2 minutes) but credit the Steward for taking action.
We need to be better all round next week v Somerset but well done to the team anyway.
