Gatting leads group asking Middlesex chair to resign

Gatting leads group asking Middlesex chair to resignImage source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Mike Gatting played for Middlesex between 1975 and 1998ByMatthew HenryBBC Sport JournalistPublished23 minutes agoFormer England captain Mike Gatting and a group of high-profile former Middlesex players have written to members after calling on the club’s chair to resign, saying the club has been “poorly led for too long”.Gatting and former England and Middlesex players Mark Ramprakash, Mike Selvey, John Emburey and Clive Radley, plus West Indies legend Desmond Haynes, say chair Richard Sykes has rejected calls to commit to standing down.Middlesex begin their campaign in Division Two of the County Championship against Gloucestershire at Lord’s on Friday. The 11-time county champions have been in the second tier in five of the past six full seasons.”As former players of Middlesex, we have become increasingly disturbed at the way the club has been allowed to sink to its current level,” the letter says.”The players are a product of their environment and in areas where the standard of coaching has been poor, the players have not been sufficiently challenged resulting in inadequate standards becoming the norm, insufficient to compete at the level to which we should aspire.”England players do not play enough county cricket – Lehmann