Runs for Robson as Middlesex and Somerset make chilly start to season

Middlesex 293-8 v SomersetFormer England opener makes 165 on opening dayAs the clock struck 11 and around the country play got under way on the opening day of the County Championship, at Lord’s the hover cover settled gently onto the wicket like a prim gentleman carefully lowering himself into a new sofa. There is a long summer to come, and this the first of a million minor disappointments. It was barely even rainfall, the gentlest whisper of moisture in the air, soon to be silenced.A few