Vinny Codrington, Middlesex's chief executive, has said the county does "feel penalised" by rules that would prevent their leading players from taking part in the Champions Twenty20 League in India in December.
Middlesex will be affected by a tournament rule under which they can use only those players on their books when they qualified for the Champions League. That rules out Neil Dexter, who was signed post season from Kent, and Neil Carter, a short-term loan signing from Warwickshire. Dirk Nannes is also missing from the squad as he is representing Victoria.
They are also unlikely to have their two England players, Owais Shah and Andrew Strauss, who will be part of the national team touring India. While Shah is part of both the Test and ODI team, Strauss has been included for the two-Test series, which starts on December 14.
"Chennai [Super Kings], for example, have got four internationals while it doesn't look like England are going to release Shah and Strauss, so we have look at alternatives and we do feel penalised," Codrington told the Daily Telegraph. "We are also only allowed one overseas player while Chennai can pick Matthew Hayden, Mike Hussey and Muttiah Muralitharan so we are starting behind the eight-ball.
"The guys will go out early and we are having to pay for that as they will not fund us being there until the 30th [November] but we want to give ourselves the best chance of competing," Codrington said. "We let the Trinidad match get away from us and we were stuffed by the Stanford team, although not as badly as England were."
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