By Richard Latham

April 26-29, Seat Unique Stadium, Bristol
Middlesex 203 (De Caires 37, Higgins 30, de Lange 6-49, Goodman 2-39) Gloucestershire 271-6 (Hammond 81, van Buuren 75, Bamber 2-75, Helm 2-78)

Toss: Gloucestershire, who elected to field. Officials: Neil Pratt, Surendiran Shanmugam, Mike Smith
If you bowl well, it is hard to score. The hybrid pitch made the ball rise to shoulder, rather than shin, height at times, but other than the steeper bounce it was not that different.
MIDDLESEX TOP SCORER JOSH DE CAIRES
DAY ONE
GLOUCESTERSHIRE seamer Marchant de Lange notched hi...