Multi-dayMen

Middlesex v Northamptonshire

Match drawn

County Championship, Match 917 April 2026 to 20 April 2026County Ground, Northampton

MID

Middlesexbatted first

341 & 353/3104 ov

NOR

Northamptonshire

409111.4 ov

Middlesex won the toss and chose to bat

MIDMiddlesex innings

34188.5 ov

Middlesex batting
Batter	Dismissal	R	B	4s	6s	SR
SD Robson	c CG Harrison b HNA Conway	13	30	2	0	43.3
JM De Caires	c JJG Sales b BW Sanderson	2	5	0	0	40.0
MDE Holden	c JJG Sales b HNA Conway	1	6	0	0	16.7
JL du Plooy	c R Vasconcelos b BW Sanderson	51	66	6	0	77.3
BBA Geddes	c CG Harrison b BW Sanderson	65	80	9	0	81.3
RF Higgins	c SA Zaib b CG Harrison	14	36	2	0	38.9
JB Cracknell	c L Guthrie b CG Harrison	79	136	9	0	58.1
Zafar Gohar	c & b HNA Conway	83	133	6	1	62.4
TS Roland-Jones	c GA Bartlett b BW Sanderson	17	19	3	0	89.5
TG Helm	c HNA Conway b BW Sanderson	5	21	0	0	23.8
N Sharma	not out	0*	2	0	0	0.0
Extras	b 4, lb 3, w 2, nb 2	11
Total	all out, 88.5 overs, run rate 3.84	341

Did not batLBK Hollman

Fall of wicketsruns, 0 to 410

1-6 JM De Caires2-7 MDE Holden3-20 SD Robson4-105 JL du Plooy5-150 BBA Geddes6-164 RF Higgins7-304 JB Cracknell8-325 TS Roland-Jones9-341 TG Helm10-341 Zafar Gohar

Bowling to Middlesex
Bowler	O	M	R	W	Econ	Dots	4s	6s	Wd	Nb
HNA Conway	20.5	2	74	3	3.55	91	11	0	0	0
BW Sanderson	19	3	62	5	3.26	83	6	0	0	1
LA Procter	8	0	36	0	4.50	30	5	0	0	0
L Guthrie	13	0	77	0	5.92	39	8	1	2	0
CG Harrison	21	2	65	2	3.10	86	6	0	0	0
JJG Sales	3	0	14	0	4.67	10	1	0	0	0
SA Zaib	3	0	5	0	1.67	13	0	0	0	0
NA McSweeney	1	0	1	0	1.00	5	0	0	0	0

NORNorthamptonshire innings

409111.4 ov

Northamptonshire batting
Batter	Dismissal	R	B	4s	6s	SR
R Vasconcelos	c JB Cracknell b TS Roland-Jones	27	29	3	0	93.1
LA Procter	lbw b TG Helm	13	26	2	0	50.0
CG Harrison	c BBA Geddes b TS Roland-Jones	0	2	0	0	0.0
NA McSweeney	c RF Higgins b TG Helm	107	191	16	0	56.0
SA Zaib	c SD Robson b N Sharma	14	47	2	0	29.8
JJG Sales	c JL du Plooy b RF Higgins	164	265	24	2	61.9
GA Bartlett	b N Sharma	1	7	0	0	14.3
LD McManus	c JB Cracknell b RF Higgins	9	34	1	0	26.5
BW Sanderson	c SD Robson b N Sharma	7	16	1	0	43.8
L Guthrie	c SD Robson b TS Roland-Jones	51	49	8	1	104.1
HNA Conway	not out	4*	7	1	0	57.1
Extras	b 5, lb 1, nb 6	12
Total	all out, 111.4 overs, run rate 3.66	409

Fall of wicketsruns, 0 to 410

1-30 LA Procter2-37 CG Harrison3-42 R Vasconcelos4-98 SA Zaib5-262 NA McSweeney6-263 GA Bartlett7-290 LD McManus8-307 BW Sanderson9-381 L Guthrie10-409 JJG Sales

Bowling to Northamptonshire
Bowler	O	M	R	W	Econ	Dots	4s	6s	Nb
TS Roland-Jones	29	7	83	3	2.86	136	11	1	0
TG Helm	22	3	77	2	3.50	92	11	0	0
RF Higgins	29.4	4	105	2	3.54	138	17	0	3
N Sharma	25	5	92	3	3.68	114	15	0	0
LBK Hollman	4	0	37	0	9.25	11	4	2	0
JM De Caires	2	0	9	0	4.50	5	0	0	0

MIDMiddlesex innings

353/3104 ov

Middlesex batting
Batter	Dismissal	R	B	4s	6s	SR
JM De Caires	lbw b LA Procter	15	52	2	0	28.8
SD Robson	c LD McManus b L Guthrie	162	305	21	0	53.1
MDE Holden	b CG Harrison	86	144	14	0	59.7
JL du Plooy	not out	66*	118	7	0	55.9
BBA Geddes	not out	0*	7	0	0	0.0
Extras	b 9, lb 10, w 1, nb 4	24
Total	3 wickets, 104 overs, run rate 3.39	353

Did not batLBK Hollman, RF Higgins, JB Cracknell, Zafar Gohar, TS Roland-Jones, TG Helm, N Sharma

Fall of wicketsruns, 0 to 410

1-34 JM De Caires2-199 MDE Holden3-351 SD Robson

Bowling to Middlesex
Bowler	O	M	R	W	Econ	Dots	4s	Wd	Nb
BW Sanderson	17	5	45	0	2.65	80	7	0	1
HNA Conway	15	7	17	0	1.13	78	2	0	0
LA Procter	12	2	49	1	4.08	51	9	0	1
L Guthrie	17	0	89	1	5.24	59	14	0	0
CG Harrison	24	2	75	1	3.13	95	7	0	0
NA McSweeney	3	1	17	0	5.67	8	2	0	0
SA Zaib	11	1	24	0	2.18	48	2	0	0
JJG Sales	5	0	18	0	3.60	17	1	1	0

Ball by ball and partnerships. Every delivery of this match is in the database, with batter, bowler, runs, extras and wickets. The first over is free on any key; the rest opens with Match Week for the last 7 days, or Archive for every match since 2001. See the plans.

Match facts

Format: Multi-day match
Competition: County Championship
Toss: Middlesex, chose to bat
Umpires: S Redfern and Surendiran Shanmugam
Match referee: AM Smith
Season: 2026

Conditions

The day's weather at the ground.

Day 1: 17 / 8°C, 0.4 mm rain
Day 2: 15 / 6°C, 0.2 mm rain
Day 3: 14 / 4°C, dry
Day 4: 13 / 2°C, dry

GET/v1/matches/2026-04-17-middlesex-v-northamptonshire/scorecard200

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  "result": "Match drawn",
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    { "team": "Northamptonshire", "runs": 409, "wickets": 10 },
    { "team": "Middlesex", "runs": 353, "wickets": 3 }
  ],
  "batting": [ ... 27 rows ... ],
  "bowling": [ ... 22 rows ... ]
}

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