How did we win in 2008?

As a long suffering member I'm very aware that prior to the start of this season Middlesex were statistically the worst side in T20 county cricket (wins as a percentage of games played) and now with 2 wins in 13 I can't bring myself to do the maths.

So that gorgeous day in 2008 when after playing in an win at a beautiful ground I got back to my local in time to see MCCC's famous victory surrounded by fairly gracious Surrey-supporting mates seems surreal. In other circumstances you might even wonder if a leather jacket were involved (but certainly not here).

So I checked and of the 11 that won less than 3 years ago only 4 are still with us (one on England duty, one injured, one lent to another county and one rested). And one played against us last night and one has joined us from the beaten finalists.

So no reason to expect the 2008 and 2011 sides to have anything in common - I suspect that there is more of a merrygoround in cricket than there is in the game with a bigger ball for those with short attention spans.

P S I see from the same Wisden that Adam Rossington, now of Middlesex had a wonderful year for Mill Hill School.

PPS at least Pinky the Panther won the mascot race last night. Middlesex till we die wants to give him the player of the month award ( I met some of them yesterday at a pub near the ground) http://www.cricketnetwork.co.uk/main/s66.htm

Rossington makes Stanmore pay for failure in Sri Lanka match

Although Rossington failed against the Sri Lankan's for Middlesex, he helped Eastcote chase 350 against Stanmore in the Middlesex Premier League on Saturday with 120. Not a bad run chase!

Sri Lanka will offer a stiff test...won't they?

Irrespective of their win against Middlesex, I've always thought that Sri Lanka will be a good test for England this summer. If the weather stays good the ball is unlikely to be swinging around corners, so England's seamers won't find life as easy as last summer against Pakistan. The ball will be doing less and they will find the Sri Lankan batsmen a little bit more if a test than Pakistan - I noticed yesterday King Cricket described Pakistan's batsmen as the "players who don't bowl" after their defeat to Pakistan! To me Sri Lanka's batting line up looks superior to England's on paper.

Interesting to see that Adam Rossington struggled. He was only 18 two weeks ago but rumour has it he's a top talent, so initial single-figure scores in first class cricket might make it a good time to make a bet on him playing for England!