View from the Box
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.
During the gap in play, at least to the naked eye, the cloud cover appeared at least on a par – if not worse – than the conditions that had prompted bad light delays on the preceding two days.
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