Joyce Targets Fairytale Ending
Joyce - heads to Sussex next year.
Ed Joyce is determined to sign off his Middlesex career on a high by winning the inaugural Champions League Twenty20 in India next month.
The 30-year-old has agreed to join Sussex next season but will represent the club where he has spent his entire professional career in Asia at the lucrative competition.
"If we do well in this and I do well it would be brilliant to finish off on a winning note," Joyce said.
"That's what I'm hoping. It's been weird because I moved clubs at the end of last season but I've been still hanging around and training with the Middlesex players even though I'm going to Sussex next season.
"I can't wait (for the Champions League). It's the first one ever, there are lots of good players and it's going to be huge."
Winning the Champions League, which comprises teams from Australia, South Africa, India, Pakistan and England, would bag Middlesex £2million, which chief executive Vinny Codrington said would be a massive boost for the club.
"It will be great for everybody if we win it," he said.
"It will allow us to build a new indoor school and it will be great for the players - they'll be going round with very broad smiles. They stand to do very well out of it if we win and they deserve it.
"We are very excited and very honoured and delighted to be the first representatives from this country to take part in the Champions League.
"It's a new adventure for absolutely everybody and it's something we're looking forward to with a lot of relish."
The availability of batsmen Andrew Strauss and Owais Shah is still in doubt, as they could be involved in England's first Test against India, but Joyce is keeping his fingers crossed.
"Owais played in the final and didn't play many of the games but showed in the final how good he is," he added.
"It'll be a massive boost for us to have them because otherwise we've got a lot of 19 and 20-year-olds and even though they've done brilliantly you want a bit of experience so it'd be very helpful if we have them.
"I don't like to set targets but we showed in the Twenty20 this year that if you win your first game it gives you a good chance, so we'll be hoping to win our first match against Victoria.
"If we can win that we'll feel like we've got a good chance of going through."