Here is a link to an interesting Article on Max covering his early cricket development. In it he talks about North Midd’s success in developing our quartet of Middlesex pros and his reflections on the Club's ethos and his own progression through its senior sides.

https://www.cricketworld.com/max-harris-talks-about-being-a-better-tennis-player-than-cricketer/80874.htm

Key extracts re North Midd –

"Harris is the youngest of a quartet of North Middlesex CC players – the others being Ethan Bamber, Joe Cracknell and Luke Hollman – to progress into and through the academy of the Lord’s tenants.
It begs the question, what is it about the Hornsey-based club which is provoking this conveyor belt of cricketing talent?
According to Harris, rather than anything in the north London water, the secret is the club’s ethos of a welcoming, enabling environment, but one where no favours or freebies are granted.
“I always thought there was a little bit of luck to North Middlesex producing all these first-class cricketers and that it might just have been a coincidence we were all born in the same area, so went to the same club,” he added.
“But all the other clubs seem to only have one, so maybe it’s not a coincidence. All the senior lads in the team include you with everything and make you feel welcome, so you actually want to go to the club.
“My first senior game I was 12 or 13 and started in the 5s. It wasn’t a case of these guys play for the county teams in their age-groups so we’ll put them into a higher team. You had to earn your stripes, put in good performances and then you’d move up.
“There was always the sense I’m not going to be gifted anything here. I need to work hard and then I can play in a higher team. So it was a good environment, but a hard one and quite competitive, involving having fun but needing to be highly motivated as well.”