T20 Blast: Middlesex beat Sussex for first win in 2026 competition

Middlesex won their first T20 Blast match of the season with an impressive display against Sussex at Hove, with the home side replacing them at the bottom of the South group table.

T20 Blast: Middlesex beat Sussex for first win in 2026 competition. Middlesex won their first T20 Blast match of the season with an impressive display against Sussex at Hove, with the home side replacing them at the bottom of the South group table. Middlesex scored a challenging 213-4, propelled by a 41-ball 77 by opener Max Holden, who hit five sixes and six fours. Opening partner Adam Rossington had fallen in the fourth over, cramped by the pace of Tymal Mills he played a short-arm hook to deep backward square-leg. But left-hander Holden was in fine form and raised the fifty in the sixth over when he guided a Mills delivery to the third man boundary. He put on 95 for the second wicket with Joshua De Caires, who made his maiden Blast fifty and went on to score an unbeaten 80 from 44 deliveries, with five sixes and seven fours. And when H...