Middlesex’s Ravi Patel could have done with some spin support at Taunton
Middlesex in a spin
As a Middlesex member I’m not surprised that we have again sufiered a penalty for slow over-rates: the same thing happened previously. In general we always play four seamers and just one spinner, whether we are at Lord’s or away. Even in the game at Somerset, knowing the wicket was a spinners’ paradise, we again played four seamers and Ravi Patel as the lone spinner. Where was Nathan Sowter? In past years we have used two – Fred Titmus and Don Bick, John Emburey and Phil Edmonds, and later Emburey, Paul Weekes and Phil Tufnell. It may be time to prepare wickets for spinners and bring the entertainment factor back into the game.