Hampshire Duo Selected For MCC Champion County Match

Tom Alsop and Mason Crane will represent Marylebone Cricket Club in the 2017 Champion County Match this March

Hampshire's Tom Alsop and Mason Crane will represent Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) in the 2017 Champion County match set to take place in Abu Dhabi this March.

The duo have been named as part of the team which will take on Middlesex in the annual, four-day curtain raiser for the English county season with Kent's Sam Northeast captaining the youthful side.

The fixture will begin on 26th March at the Sheikh Zayed Stadium and will be played with a pink Dukes ball in day/night conditions. It has been played in Abu Dhabi under the MCC Spirit of Cricket banner since 2009.

Having worked closely with the England selectors to assemble this group, I am very pleased with the fantastic talent we have at our disposal.

We’ve also selected a youthful and varied bowling attack which I’m sure will pose problems for the Middlesex batsmen. The facilities in Abu Dhabi and Dubai remain excellent for first class cricket and we’re looking forward to a competitive match.”

John Stephenson, MCC Head of Cricket

This will be Middlesex’s first involvement in the fixture in its current format, having won the 2016 Specsavers County Championship for the first time in 23 years last summer.

Full MCC Team: Haseeb Hameed (Lancashire, England), Tom Alsop (Hampshire, England Lions), Sam Northeast © (Kent), Ben Duckett (Northamptonshire, England), Joe Clarke (Worcestershire, England Lions), Ben Cox (Worcestershire), Lewis Gregory (Somerset, England Lions), Matt Coles (Kent, England Lions), Matt Fisher (Yorkshire, England U19), Mason Crane (Hampshire), Jack Leach (Somerset, England Lions).

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