After watching Kent beat Surrey just a few days previously, I was back at The Oval on a glorious Saturday afternoon for the dead rubber of the Southern T20 group. The game between the two most useless teams in the group, who couldn't seem to win a thing this season - and that despite Middlesex being reigning T20 champions. I was on a stag do, where not many of the participants were especially interested in goings on in the middle of the pitch - more of an excuse to drink beer in the sunshine. But with a game this irrelevant, it was hard to care too much about what was happening.Surrey batted first and scored 160, a total that turned out not to be good enough. Brown stayed in for pretty much the whole innings, scoring 77 but probably taking too many balls with which to do it. It was strange not to see Mark Ramprakash batting, but then he was probably being saved for matters more important. The Middlesex run chase looked pretty easy from the moment Owais Shah came in and started to run the show - his unbeaten 61 saw Middlesex home with 10 balls to spare, which is a decent margin in this form of the game. So, a nice day out in the baking sunshine (although 15 minutes after the game, the heavens opened all over London, and there were hailstones to be had), to watch a game that will not be remembered for very long at all.
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