Middlesex Preview: Compton back, Muyeye still sidelined
18.06.26, 12:38 Updated 18.06.26, 12:58
Fred Atkins
The Spitfire had to take a couple of days off earlier this week, to deal with the bombshell revelation that cricketers “drink alcohol”, but we’ve recovered from that shock and are fighting fit for the 174th Canterbury Festival, which starts on Friday.
If you want the historical background on this there are a number of articles on the club website, written by Jonathan Rice and Jonathan Hanbury, that we can’t better here: we’ll just point out that when this event first took place in 1842, Queen Victoria was five years into her reign, British troops were being massacred in Afghanistan and, in happier news, nobody would know who Simon Jordan was for at least another century and a half.*
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Fred Atkins Fred Atkins is a former Kent Messenger sports editor and has written several books, including The Spitfire Diaries, an account of Kent's 2021 season and Monty Panesar's "The Full Monty". He has followed KCCC since 1993 and has covered them for the ECB and Wisden since 2021.