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County Championship Division Two roundup: Middlesex promotion hopes dented by Gloucestershire

The Cricketer wraps up the best of the action during day four of round 13 of the Vitality County Championship in 2024

ECB Reporters Network | 12/09/2024 at 15:30

Lord's (day four of four): Middlesex 377 & 165, Gloucestershire 309-9d & 236-6 - Gloucestershire win by 4 wickets

Tom Price and Zafar Gohar held their nerve to steer Gloucestershire to a tense victory at Lord's and deal Middlesex's Vitality County Championship promotion hopes a severe blow.

The visitors appeared to be cruising to their target of 234 after Miles Hammond and James Bracey both struck half-centuries in a fourth-wicket partnership of 113.

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GThree wickets from Josh de Caires gave Middlesex some hope (Getty Images)

But a three-wicket burst for off-spinner Josh de Caires in the space of nine deliveries hauled Middlesex back into contention before the seventh-wicket pair steered Gloucestershire over the line with an unbroken stand of 54.

It was Gloucestershire's second successive red-ball win at Lord's, lifting them to fifth place in Division Two, while the home side drop to third and trail Yorkshire, in the second promotion spot, by 15 points.