SHAUN Udal has challenged his Middlesex team to ensure Hampshire’s poor Twenty20 away form continues at Uxbridge tonight (5.30pm start).
Hampshire’s record at Uxbridge is appalling.
They have lost every game they have played there since their first match on the Middlesex outground in 1982.
And they have lost three successive Twenty20 away games since beating Udal’s Middlesex, the eventual champions, at Richmond last season.
But Udal knows it will be difficult to stop Hampshire breaking their Uxbridge duck tonight.
“Hampshire are a very talented side and must be playing well to have left John Crawley out,” said the former Hampshire captain, whose Middlesex side lost in the Friends Provident Trophy quarter finals at the Rose Bowl ten days ago.
Udal recognised similarities with the Hampshire team he led to the 2005 C& G Trophy during Middlesex’s 44-run defeat.
He said: “The spirit and work ethic is still in evidence and the bowling unit is strong but the make up of the side is slightly different."
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