50 Years Ago: Allan Jones looks back at Middlesex's County Championship success of 1976
18.06.26, 10:20 Updated 18.06.26, 10:20
Jon Batham
June temperatures records may be broken this weekend apparently - good news for ice-cream van proprietors and sellers of sunscreen – but not so good if you’re part of the Middlesex fast bowling battery bound for tomorrow’s game with Kent at Canterbury.
Hard yakka lies in store for Toby Roland-Jones and company at the St Lawrence ground with not even the prospect of shelter from the famous lime tree -once part of the playing area but killed by a storm in 2005 – to offer any solace from the sun’s rays.
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