SOMERSET host Middlesex for the first time in First-Class cricket since September 2017, when a 231-run defeat consigned the 2016 champions to relegation, with Somerset staying up at their expense. Middlesex’s managing director of cricket Angus Fraser did not take it well, saying afterwards: “It’s disgraceful what they [Somerset] did. “I’ve never seen such a doctored pitch.”While Somerset have gone from strength to strength since 2017’s great escape - finishing runners-up in English First-Class cricket in 2018, 2019 and 2020 - Middlesex have remained stuck in Division 2 of the County Championship. READ MORE: Somerset pull off unlikely turnaround to start season with winGoing into this week's match (April 29-May 2), Somerset sit third in the Group 2 table, after beating Leicestershire last time out, with Middlesex in fourth. There will be reduced social media coverage of the match, as Somerset join their fellow counties and the England & Wales Cricket Board in standing alongside the football community for a social media boycott from 3pm on Friday, April 30, to 11.59pm on Monday, May 3.

Source: Express April 28, 2021 15:45 UTC