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Northamptonshire's Saif Zaib and Middlesex skipper Leus du Plooy leave the field as bad light stopped play on the final day. (Photograph: Peter Short)

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Northamptonshire's County Championship clash with Middlesex might have culminated in an exciting finish - but for the time shorn off the match because the...

24.04.26, 21:00 Updated 24.04.26, 21:00

Ben Pheazey

The lingering memory of this match will not be the application of the Middlesex top order with the bat on the final day, or the perseverance Northamptonshire showed with the ball.

Instead, all of that grit and determination was overshadowed by the bizarre spectacle of the umpires taking a light meter reading one over after the tea interval and halting play when it was in their gift to do that before the break.

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