Middlesex County Cricket Club, long-time tenants at the sport’s most stately home, Lord’s, are hardly renowned as disruptors so it is amusing to hear Stevie Eskinazi talk of their plans for their return to Division One this week.
“We’re primed quite nicely to go and shake the competition up a little bit,” he tells Standard Sport, ahead of the season-opener against Essex, which starts on Thursday. “Yeah, we’re the recently promoted team but with the personnel we’ve got, with how much international experience and how much hunger there is, I think we’re in a fantastic position to at least compete hard. At our best, with that side, we’ll be a match for any team in Div One.”
