Derbyshire v Middlesex preview

Fourteen becomes thirteen for Mickey Arthur and Derbyshire's squad, for the game against Middlesex which starts at the County Ground tomorrow.

Anuj Dal sits this one out to rest a back problem, but the rest of the squad is as played at Leicester. I would assume that Mitch Wagstaff will get his first opportunity of the summer in place of Dal and we are likely to field the following eleven (with those missing out at the end)

Lloyd, Jewell, Came, Madsen, Guest, Reece, Wagstaff, Andersson, Chappell, Tickner, Morley (Brown and Thomson)

Four seamers and three spinners in that eleven, which covers all of the bases, quite nicely.

MIddlesex are one place below. Derbyshire in fourth and I suspect that this will be a good toss to win tomorrow. With Dane Paterson and Zafar Gohar in their ranks they cover seam and spin quote nicely, while Leus du Plooy will hope for runs against his old county.

The Middlesex squad: 

Roland-Jones, Brookes, Cullen, Davies, du Plooy, Eskinazi, Fernandes, Geddes, Gohar, Higgins, Holden, Hollman, Paterson

With the exception of a few potential showers on Saturday, the game is set to be blessed by good weather. I can't call this one, but as I said at the start, I suspect that the team that wins the toss will dictate the match. 

I won't see any of the first day, as we will be spending our last day in Berwick, but I will post the score at the end of it and you can all add your comments as you see fit. 

I will of course be following our fortunes, but in what is forecast to be another beautiful day in Northumberland...

Fingers crossed the boys do us proud!