20/09Result
Final, One-Day Cup at Nottingham, Sep 20 2026
Middlesex won by 31 runs
Player of the Match
Ryan Higgins
Ryan HigginsMiddlesex
20/09Result
Final, One-Day Cup at Nottingham, Sep 20 2026
Middlesex won by 31 runs
Player of the Match
Ryan Higgins
Ryan HigginsMiddlesex

  • Middlesex Innings

    BATSMEN
    R
    B
    4s
    6s
    SR
    JM De Caires
    26
    50
    3
    0
    52
    18.3 feathered down the leg-side! A hammer-blow for Middlesex. Cox's fourth catch is a a screamer, flinging himself to his left to grab in an outstretched glove. Huge moment! 58/4
    N Fernandes
    13
    15
    3
    0
    86.66
    5.3 Takes the edge this time! Fernandes gave it full beans that time, trying to smash Holland off his length. But the line was ideal and the offcutter movement confounded his ambitions 23/1
    MDE Holden
    5
    14
    1
    0
    35.71
    9.3 Holden has a hack, flying edge to the keeper! Outside off, extra nip off the pitch, the batter was lured into the big shot and paid the price! Like Fernandes, too hard, too soon! 31/2
    BBA Geddes (c)
    0
    4
    0
    0
    0
    10.2 Scriven strikes second-ball! Geddes is gone before he's begun! Line and length, finding the nick, inducing the error with good discipline. Middlesex are officially in bother 32/3
    RF Higgins
    100
    115
    9
    0
    86.95
    48.1 Goes for broke, it's 100 and out for Higgins! He planted the front foot, tried to launch it over long-on, but he couldn't get the legs to clear the deep-set fielder 224/8
    LBK Hollman
    7
    8
    1
    0
    87.5
    21.1 Rehan strikes first ball! Round the wicket to the left-hander, a well-flighted googly, takes the thin nick as Hollman plays for turn the other way. Five out of five for Cox! 71/5
    HG Duke †
    55
    69
    3
    1
    79.71
    44.2 Steps into the length but can't reach it properly! An ambitious hack over the off side, it skews away to Eskinazi in the covers and a vital stand is broken! 206/6
    TG Helm
    7
    14
    0
    0
    50
    47.4 Nailed in front! An optimistic sweep across the line. Up goes the finger! 221/7
    Zafar Gohar
    not out
    5
    5
    0
    0
    100
    TS Roland-Jones
    1
    3
    0
    0
    33.33
    48.5 Back of a length, clawed around the corner, pocketed at short backward square! Five for Holland and what a day to produce such a haul! 226/9
    N Sharma
    2
    3
    0
    0
    66.66
    49.5 Rocks back to slap through the covers, picks out Eskinazi! Middlesex are all out with a ball to spare. But from 71 for 5, that is a score on the board 231/10
    Extras
    10 (lb 1, nb 1, w 8)
    TOTAL
    231 all out (49.5 Overs, RR: 4.63)
    Fall of wickets: 1-23 (Nathan Fernandes, 5.3 ov), 2-31 (Max Holden, 9.3 ov), 3-32 (Ben Geddes, 10.2 ov), 4-58 (Joshua De Caires, 18.3 ov), 5-71 (Luke Hollman, 21.1 ov), 6-206 (Harry Duke, 44.2 ov), 7-221 (Tom Helm, 47.4 ov), 8-224 (Ryan Higgins, 48.1 ov), 9-226 (Toby Roland-Jones, 48.5 ov), 10-231 (Naavya Sharma, 49.5 ov)
    BowlingOMRWEconWDNB
    BGF Green804105.1200
    IG Holland1013653.630
    TAR Scriven903924.3310
    AM Green70350541
    Rehan Ahmed9.515535.5900
    AY Patel60240400

  • Leicestershire Innings

    BATSMEN
    R
    B
    4s
    6s
    SR
    SS Eskinazi (c)
    12
    13
    2
    0
    92.3
    5.1 full length, edged - and taken! Sharma leaps and punches the air, Middlesex have their breakthrough! Pitched up, wobble seam in the channel, inviting the drive. Eskinazi takes the bait but the ball straightens and snags the edge. Well held by De Caires at second slip 29/1
    RK Patel
    16
    22
    4
    0
    72.72
    6.4 pulled straight to deep midwicket! Patel goes now, and TRJ is pumped. He'd succeeded with the swashbuckling approach but that's giving it away. Two men out and he could barely have picked out Higgins better 31/2
    Rehan Ahmed
    9
    25
    1
    0
    36
    14.3 trapped on the shin, up goes the finger! Ben Debenham doesn't think too long before giving this one... and Rehan won't review it! TRJ has another and Leicestershire's mini-revival is cut down. Looked pretty adjacent, clipping leg stump at worst, I'd say. Update: It was missing leg! Rehan can only rue the unused review 67/4
    Hamza Shaikh
    1
    3
    0
    0
    33.33
    7.1 full, straight, pinned in front! Sharma has another... but Sheikh calls for the review. If he hasn't hit it, that looked plumb. Bat on pad is the contact, what does ball-tracking say? Smashing leg stump! Tom Lungley raises his finger for a second time, and Leicestershire are three down early 32/3
    NF Kelly
    103
    107
    10
    3
    96.26
    41.2 spanked... but Kelly picks out deep midwicket! That's the one Middlesex wanted! Slower ball from Helm, out the back of the hand. Kelly was waiting for it but couldn't get the timing as he heaved towards the Fox Road Stand, and holes out to Higgins on the rope. He looks distraught, throws his bat away in disgust 188/8
    OB Cox †
    8
    16
    1
    0
    50
    18.5 nicks him off, TRJ has another! He's off and running again... Searching line, just enough nip from a good length, and Cox is drawn into pushing at it. Just a feather edge through to Duke behind the stumps, and Leics are five down! 79/5
    IG Holland
    15
    23
    1
    0
    65.21
    28.4 lures him out, spins through to Duke - gottim! Brilliant work from Gohar and his partner behind the stumps. Drift and turn, Holland is stranded despite the desperate attempt to get his bat back. Middlesex strike at a crucial juncture to keep the chase in the balance 129/6
    BGF Green
    11
    25
    0
    0
    44
    37.3 Helm strikes, the short ball does it! Green hasn't looked comfortable against that line of attack. Decent bumper, into the armpit and he opts to take it on - but picks out deep square leg for a simple catch! Middlesex scrapping to the finish line 175/7
    TAR Scriven
    10
    21
    0
    0
    47.61
    44.2 scooped into the sky, straight to mid-off! Geddes is the man to settle under it, and Middlesex have done it! Their first piece of white-ball silverware since 2008, coming amid all the off-field turmoil of recent times 200/10
    AY Patel
    7
    10
    1
    0
    70
    43.5 taken by the leaping Gohar at the second attempt! Slashed behind square, he does well to palm it up initially, and then has the wherewithal to stick out both paws and grab it on the way down. Huge cheers from the Middlesex sections of the crowd, they think that means the cup has their name on it! 200/9
    AM Green
    not out
    0
    1
    0
    0
    0
    Extras
    8 (lb 6, w 2)
    TOTAL
    200 all out (44.2 Overs, RR: 4.51)
    Fall of wickets: 1-29 (Stephen Eskinazi, 5.1 ov), 2-31 (Rishi Patel, 6.4 ov), 3-32 (Hamza Shaikh, 7.1 ov), 4-67 (Rehan Ahmed, 14.3 ov), 5-79 (Ben Cox, 18.5 ov), 6-129 (Ian Holland, 28.4 ov), 7-175 (Ben Green, 37.3 ov), 8-188 (Nick Kelly, 41.2 ov), 9-200 (Ajaz Patel, 43.5 ov), 10-200 (Tom Scriven, 44.2 ov)
    BowlingOMRWEcon0s4s6sWDNB
    TS Roland-Jones1012732.7484000
    N Sharma7.213735.04295100
    TG Helm803234283010
    RF Higgins804105.12224000
    Zafar Gohar703314.71231200
    LBK Hollman402406113010

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