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September 15, 2011
Middlesex 502 and 127 in 5319 and beat Leicestershire 306 by five rings
Middlesex won the second division title with five wickets win over Leicestershire at rock-bottom Grace Road. They hunt down big time victory target of 124, dropped to 90 for five after losing five wickets for 33 runs in a spell over 11, but wicketkeeper John Simpson and versatile Gareth Berg may have seen them at home with a flurry of boundaries.
Simpson, impressed in his unbeaten 27 Six Fours and Berg, crashed two sixes and four rapid-fire has given 19 Middlesex to their eighth victory of the season, and return to Division One for the first time then there is the return in 2006.
Middlesex had started the last search for a quick profit of 222 Leicestershire 7, which is only 37 races. But it took 22.2 transfers require the last three wickets, with Leicestershire adding another 84 runs.
From the moment Ned Eckersley struck the first ball of the day to Ollie Rayner at the border in Leicestershire showed that there is going to make things easy for Middlesex. Jigar Naik Eckersley and shared a stand of 38 in the eighth wicket before Corey Collymore had Naik IPN.
Buck joined Nathan Eckersley in the ninth position of the window 44 to frustrate over Middlesex. Eckersley has reached its second half-century from 98 balls the game with six fours before long hole that out, tried another big hit against Rayner. Buck was the man of the final day, beating Steven Crook first slip, and a total of 306 Leicestershire Middlesex left the modest goal of 124.
They seemed to have problems when Andrew Strauss and Sam Robson put a seven-over 44 before lunch, but then the collapse of the brash began shortly after the interim. Robson was trapped LBW by Naik with a total of 57, when Strauss was caught behind off Wayne White 30, the nerves really started to
Dawid Malan was held scoreless in white and took two more windows, with Jamie Dalrymple and Chris Rogers called for Middlesex IPN was reduced to 90 5. However, Simpson and Berg brutally interrupted in bulk in a sixth wicket unbroken stand to allow celebrations to begin.
White finished with an impressive 3 for 36, while Naik, who claimed 1-52, were rewarded for an impressive season with a new two-year contract with Leicestershire, flying tomorrow to Hyderabad for Champions League T20 competition in India.
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