Although Middlesex's plans will be disrupted by the loss of Adam Voges to the Ashes, the prolific Australian is expected to line up against his former county, Nottinghamshire, for the opening game of the LV= County Championship season at Lord's on Sunday 12 April.
Managing Director of Cricket Angus Fraser opted against renewing the contract of Chris Rogers, ending a spell of 11 consecutive seasons of county cricket for the former Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Derbyshire left-hander, on the basis of his likely involvement in the Ashes.
Voges, on the other hand, has reached the age of 35 having never played a Test for Australia and looked a safe bet for a full and productive season of county cricket prior to averaging 104.56, with six centuries and 1358 runs, in the 2014/15 Sheffield Shield.
But, while Australia's team selection has robbed Middlesex of their captain, the omission of Sam Robson from the England party to tour the West Indies has spared the Lord's tenants an additional loss at the top of the batting order.
The Australia born right-hander played all seven five-day matches for Peter Moores' side during the 2014 summer, averaging 30.54 and notching his maiden Test century in the Second Test against Sri Lanka at Headingley.
With Adam Lyth and Jonathan Trott preferred on this occasion, it will be a run hungry Robson that Middlesex unleash on county cricket in 2015, and they will pair him at the top of the order with Nick Compton who is returning to his former county following a five year stint with Somerset.
Coming in behind their solid all-international duo at the top of the order, Dawid Malan is very much a stroke-maker, Paul Stirling can strike the ball fearfully hard and Eoin Morgan, upon his return from the IPL, will continue his quest to forge an international future in the five day format.
Neil Dexter, the 30-year-old former Essex middle-order man, is also likely to feature within that middle-order, as will 26-year-old wicketkeeper batsman John Simpson who twice scored centuries in 2014.
In the bowling all-rounder department, Middlesex will be able to call on the services of former Outlaw James Franklin following the 34-year-old's retirement from the international fold with New Zealand.
A left-arm pace bowler with just shy of 450 first-class wickets to his name, Franklin, who played 16 matches in all competitions for Nottinghamshire last season, qualifies as a non-overseas player on the basis of Irish ancestry.
Tim Murtagh, the 33-year-old former Surrey seamer who has played ten One-Day Internationals for Ireland but missed the World Cup due to injury, commences the season just five wickets short of 550 in first-class cricket.
There is plenty of incentive, meanwhile, for Steven Finn to perform in an Ashes summer, while Toby Roland-Jones took 43 first-class wickets in 2014 and James Harris is a regular with the England Lions.
In the spin bowling department, Lions all-rounder Ollie Rayner will be hoping for normal service to resume in 2015 after a previous campaign that brought five wickets in eight first-class appearances.
Ravi Patel, a 23-year-old former Loughborough MCCU left-arm spinner that also earned England Lions honours in 2014, will be hoping to build on his seven first-class appearances last term.
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