captaincolly wrote:After first insisting Middlesex could not appeal against the 2 point deduction for a slow over rate in the 'arrowgate' match, the ECB have now decided they can so a meeting next week will consider their case. If they're successful presumably it will relegate Somerset.
The Cricket Discipline Comission are it again! Bad enough when they tried to make an example of Andrew Gale, but to interfere with the competition two weeks after conclusion and dragging up an incident when four rounds of cricket were played since is something else.
An appeal and final outcome should have been decided until the next round of matches. Other teams as well as Somerset were involved in a relegation battle and that two points difference was significant to the County Championship run-in.
Given that the domestic fixtures are usually released in six to seven weeks time, any team affected by a successful Middlesex appeal will have little time to launch an appeal of their own and receive an outcome.