Middlesex ended a 36-year List A trophy drought by beating Leicestershire Foxes by 31 runs to win the Metro Bank One Day Cup in a low-scoring final at Trent Bridge. Ryan Higgins made a superb maiden List A hundred from 115 balls with Harry Duke (55) backing him up as their 135-run sixth-wicket partnership steered Middlesex from 71-5 to 231 all out after Foxes all-rounder Ian Holland took 5-36 and wicketkeeper Ben Cox held five catches. New Zealand international batter Nick Kelly hit an equally brilliant 103 (107 balls) to lead a Leicestershire fightback from 79-5 but it was not enough to haul his side over the line, Tom Helm (3-32) claiming his vital wicket in a superb late spell as the Foxes were bowled out for 200.

In an impressive performance in the field by Middlesex, Toby Roland-Jones (3-27) showed his quality and 21-year-old pace prospect Naayva Sharma (3-37) finished as the competition's leading wicket-taker with 20. The win is a first for Middlesex in a List A final since they beat Derbyshire to lift the 1990 Refuge Assurance Cup. Leicestershire, still reeling from the points deduction in the Rothesay County Championship that makes relegation almost certain, had hoped to ease the pain winning a second Metro Bank trophy in the space of four seasons but it was not to be.