England defeat Middlesex in the Stanford Super Series!

Yesterday England recorded a win over Middlesex in the first match of the exciting series. they eventually won by 12 runs with Owais Shah getting an impressive 39 not out off 37 balls.
England had won the toss and elected to bat. Openers Prior and Bell put up 43 for the first wicket until Bell was run out after good fielding from Carter. After that it was stop start and no one could get a decent partnership going as Prior went soon after Bell and Pietersen followed for a lowly 5. But Flintoff came to the wicket and managed 16 off 17 balls to bring some stability to the team and lift the poor score. Then Owais Shah came to the fore and smashed 39 off 37 balls to give England a decent 121-4, which isn't great for twenty20!
Middlesex came out to bat and England reject Strauss opened for Middlesex along with Ed Joyce. But disaster struck for the experienced Strauss as sidebottom bowled him for only 8. With runs hard to come by Joyce went for some balls and should have been caught by Collingwood but he dropped it. Pietersen was the next in line to drop a catch and this one was put into the sky from Carter but he dropped it. Then finally Carter got out when he tried to give it some off a ball from Broad but it never made the boundary as it was caught well from Shah. After that Middlesex just toiled out losing another wicket and ending with 109 runs from 20 overs.