Middlesex Cricket

Middlesex County Cricket Club are one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh domestic cricket structure. The club play the majority of their home games at Lord's Cricket Ground in St John's Wood, London. The club play their limited overs cricket under the name of the Middlesex Panthers, renamed from the Middlesex Crusaders in 2009. 

Middlesex CCC played their initial first-class match versus Sussex CCC at Islington in June 1864. Middlesex played at Lillie Bridge Grounds from 1869 before moving to Prince's Cricket Ground from 1872 to 1876, finally taking up residency at Lord's Cricket Ground in 1877.

Throughout much of their history, Middlesex have been one of the country's most successful clubs, winning 10 County Championships, two Benson & Hedges Cups, four one-day titles and the 2008 Twenty20 Cup, going on to become the first County Cricket Club to qualify for the Stanford Super Series as well as the Twenty20 Champions League.

Middlesex won the County Championship in 1947 thanks to the unprecedented run scoring of Denis Compton and Bill Edrich. They both passed Tom Hayward's long-standing record of 3518 runs in a single county season, with Compton making 3816 at a mammoth 90.86 including 18 centuries and Edrich 3539 at 80.43 with 12 100s, leading the club to the title. 

The club's most successful time came under the captaincies of Mike Brearley and Mike Gatting from 1971 to 1997. Brearley led the county to three County Championship titles during his leadership, with a bowling attack including the county's all-time leading wicket-taker Fred Titmus. Gatting took over from Brearley in 1982, going on to lead the team to another three titles in 1985, 1990 and 1993. The England batsman went on to finish his Middlesex career with over 28,000 runs to his name, leaving him second behind Patsy Hendren in the list of all-time leading run scorers. 

Middlesex won their first major title for 15 years by clinching the Twenty20 Cup after beating Kent in a thrilling final over at The Rose Bowl, scoring a Twenty20 Finals Day record score of 187/6, securing their place in both the Twenty20 Champions League and the Stanford Super Series to become the first county club to have achieved the feat. 

Australian batsman Chris Rodgers is the current first-class cricket captain, while South African Neil Dexter is the current one-day and T20 skipper. 

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