'We're here to entertain' - Henderson

Middlesex may not be playing the US$20 million game in the Stanford Super Series, but Tyron Henderson, their South Africa allrounder, wants to leave a mark during the one-week long event in Antigua.

"We're here to entertain, so I go out and entertain," he told the BBC. "People want to see the ball going out of the ground, I try to do my best to do what they've come to see.

"I enjoy the format, it's high intensity and you have to be on the ball from the word go. I'm not going to die wondering when I am batting thinking whether I should or shouldn't have hit it - if it's there to hit, believe me I will be swinging and throwing the kitchen sink at it."

Henderson is the world's leading wicket-taker in Twenty20s, with 73 scalps in 60 games, and was one of Middlesex's key players in their victorious campaign in the domestic Twenty20 Cup. He scored 281 runs at 40.14 at a strike-rate of 180.12 and took 21 wickets at an economy-rate under 7.5 per over.

"If they typecast me as a Twenty20 player, then so be it - it doesn't worry me," he said. "If you look at my stats over four-day cricket, I'm quite happy with them, I think I have done a good job throughout the length of my career playing all formats of the game, but Twenty20 just seems to suit the way I play my game."

He revealed that the IPL franchise, Mumbai Indians, have shown interest along with "one or two others," while adding: "My agents will have a chat to a couple of guys over there and hopefully I will be in the auction at the end of January and something will come out.

"When I discussed my contract, there is a clause about the IPL, but Vinny Codrington [Middlesex chief executive] is only too happy for us to play, if guys get selected then they'll get pats on the back.

"But I'm not counting my chickens before they hatch. If it happens it happens. If not then so be it. I will be here at the start of April for the start of the C&G Trophy."

Middlesex will play the two teams who will clash for the US$20 million match, England and Stanford Superstars, in warm-up games, before facing Trinidad and Tobago on October 30 - a game with US$400,000 at stake.