• Charge against club found not to be proven by CDC
• Middlesex denied any wrongdoing over complaint

Middlesex have been cleared of improper conduct following a ­disciplinary hearing by the Cricket Discipline Commission (CDC).

The Lord’s-based club had been charged with a breach of England and Wales Cricket Board’s ­Directive 3.3 – conduct “which is improper or which may be ­prejudicial to the interests of cricket, or which may bring the ECB, the game of cricket or any cricketer or groups of cricketers into disrepute”.