By Jon Culley

"We have talked all year about how much harder playing cricket is in the First Division compared with the Second. We couldn’t cope at the start and it has taken up until these last three or four games to start to perform."MIDDLESEX COACH RICHARD JOHNSON MIDDLESEX’S latest stay in Division One of the County Championship is over, although they at least went down with a fight on a dramatic final day at Trent Bridge. In a match they ultimately had to win to leapfrog relegation rivals Kent, there had looked to be only one outcome as skipper Toby Roland-Jone...