Pro40 Cricket and Tables - 14th May

Just the one game today with Middlesex the first team to travel to the Netherlands, who have begun with two wins in two.


Netherlands v Middlesex - Middlesex win by 8 wickets
Middlesex won the toss and decided to field
Net - 212-9
Mid - 213-2

The Netherlands were held to a below average score despite having been 100-1 at the half-way point of the innings. Myburgh continued his good run of form by scoring 66 at the top of the order, but that knock was the biggest by some way as the the rest of the batsmen crumbled, three of them to run outs. Stirling, the seventh bowler Middlesex used, took 4 for 27.
     Middlesex, in comparison, made a bad start losing Malan for 0, and Stirling with the score on 47-2. The run rate slowly crept up, although never passed the magical 6, until the 29th over when Rogers (83*) and Denly (96*) knocked 16 runs to all but claim the game. With only two wickets down the visitors could stroll the finish, which came with a boundary in the 38th over.

Start Player: Denly, for carrying his bat and the innings with a superb knock of 96 not out.


Tables

Group A

	Team	Played	Points
1	Netherlands	3	4
2	Gloucestershire	3	4
3	Lancashire	1	2
4	Middlesex	2	2
5	Worcestershire	2	2
6	Essex	2	1
7	Leicestershire	3	1

Group B

	Team	Played	Points
1	Surrey	2	4
2	Scotland	3	3
3	Hampshire	1	2
4	Durham	1	2
5	Glamorgan	2	1
6	Nottinghamshire	1	0
7	Somerset	2	0

Group C

	Team	Played	Points
1	Warwickshire	2	4
2	Kent	1	2
3	Sussex	1	2
4	Derbyshire	2	2
5	Northamptonshire	2	1
6	Unicorns	3	1
7	Yorkshire	1	0