Botha strikes and strikes again

Middlesex 125 for 4 (22 overs). Shah 43, Dexter 0.

Shah is playing extremely well and had just played a truly magnificent shot, lifting a good-length ball from Barker dead straight into the pavilion, waking up a MCC member who had been adoze since 1976.

Patel and Botha have just come on and Botha took wickets with his third and fourth balls: Malan lbw, sweeping, for 10, and Morgan caught behind first ball.

If Warwickshire's spinners work the oracle here, with Kent having been stuffed from the D/L up in Edinburgh, the Bears could qualify for the quarters tonight.