Middlesex ‘drifting towards irrelevance’: Gatting leads revolt against club leadership

• Open letter sent to members ahead of AGM

• ‘The club has been poorly led for too long’

A group of past Middlesex players led by Mike Gatting, the former England captain, has delivered a withering assessment of the county’s leadership on the eve of the new season and warned the club risks “drifting towards irrelevance”.

In an open letter to members – a clarion call ahead of the club’s annual general meeting on 15 April – Gatting and his co-signatories have highlighted a lack of transparency and called the cricket set-up “a mess”. Desmond Haynes, the former West Indies opener, and England’s Mark Ramprakash are among others to have put their names to the letter.