Middlesex perk up on truncated first day after fortnight's toil

NICK FRIEND AT LORD'S: Only 15 wickets fell in Middlesex's first game of the season at Lord's, and they might well have passed that figure on day one of the second, had rain not intervened on two separate occasions

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