County Championship updates from around the groundsThe Spin: sign up and get our weekly cricket emailAnd feel free to email Tanya, tweet @tjaldred or post BTL 12.01pm BST Just trying to think about Somerset rather than Middlesex - who have now lost three wickets for one run in eight balls - and their chances of winning the Championship at last; and am reminded of Lancashire´s charge for the title in 2011. They also had to go to Taunton and win in the last match of the season, plus hope that Warwickshire didn´t win at The Rose Bowl against relegated Hampshire. Paul Edwards, who was there, remembers James Hildreth´s magnificent hundred on the first day, Gary Keedy´s only direct-hit run-out of his career, and the fact that at the end of day three everyone thought Warwickshire had it in the bag. The result brought `unseemly hugs in the back of the pressbox` and memories of `trying to do interviews on the outfield while Mark Chilton, who hadn´t played, was bouncing around the Lancashire supporters singing we you Hampshire we do. If it was like that winning away, it will be carnage if Somerset win next week.` 11.48am BST And there goes Malan for a two ball duck, caught by a diving Bailey off Onions. Middlesex 3-3. The Middlesex president watching from the box, is not happy. Continue reading...
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