{"id":723462,"date":"2026-08-01T22:16:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T22:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/723462\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T22:16:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T22:16:15","slug":"squad-news-match-preview-middlesex-v-yorkshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/723462\/","title":{"rendered":"SQUAD NEWS &#038; MATCH PREVIEW | MIDDLESEX V YORKSHIRE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Men\u2019s Head Coach Peter Fulton has named a squad of 13 for tomorrow\u2019s Metro Bank One-Day Cup clash against Yorkshire at Lord\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>Middlesex will be looking to get back to winning ways following Friday\u2019s four-wicket defeat to 2025 Champions Worcestershire Rapids. <\/p>\n<p>There is one change from the squad that made the trip to New Road, with Blake Cullen missing out for this one. Jamie Feldman, Ryan Higgins and Luke Hollman are all still unavailable due to injury, with Leus du Plooy, Tom Helm, Caleb Falconer, Max Holden and Sebastian Morgan are all with their respective Hundred teams.<\/p>\n<p>Josh de Caires tops the Middlesex run charts in the One-Day Cup this year. He\u2019s scored 265 so far at an average of 88.33. His opening partner, Nathan Fernandes, is second with 177 runs at 44.25. Both have scored centuries in the first-half of the campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Middlesex\u2019s young seam duo of Naavya Sharma and Noah Cornwell are leading the wicket charts in the competition this year with 10 and 8 respectively. <\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow\u2019s opponents currently sit at the top of the Group B table with four wins from five games. The white rose defeated Durham in their previous fixture in a low-scoring match at York Cricket Club. James Wharton and Sam Whiteman\u2019s 97-run partnership was enough to see them over the line. Will Luxton leads the run charts for Yorkshire with 335 so far this year. Ben Cliff tops the wicket charts with 11.<\/p>\n<p>These two sides last met in last year\u2019s competition. Yorkshire came out on top in that one by seven wickets. <\/p>\n<p>Play is scheduled to get underway at 11am tomorrow. Tickets are still available and can be purchased online in advance <a href=\"https:\/\/tickets.lords.org\/en-GB\/events\/middlesex%20v%20yorkshire%20-%20one%20day%20cup\/2026-8-2_11.00\/lord&#039;s%20cricket%20ground?hallmap\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a> or at the gate. If you can\u2019t make the match, you can watch our free enhanced live stream on the club\u2019s YouTube channel or on the Match Centre on the Middlesex website.<\/p>\n<p>Middlesex squad to take on Yorkshire:<\/p>\n<p>Ben Geddes (c)Henry BrookesNoah CornwellJoe Cracknell (wk)Josh de CairesJack DaviesNathan FernandesZafar GoharJack NelsonSam RobsonToby Roland-JonesAaryan SawantNaavya Sharma<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Men\u2019s Head Coach Peter Fulton has named a squad of 13 for tomorrow\u2019s Metro Bank One-Day Cup clash&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":723463,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-723462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=723462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/723463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}