Captain Shaun Udal insists Middlesex need to make the most of their Twenty20 title glory in Antigua and India this winter.

Major riches are on offer in the next few months as Middlesex, this year's domestic masters of Twenty20 but under-achieving also-rans in the championship, take their mixed reputation abroad on two financially mouth-watering trips.

They fly out to the Caribbean on Sunday in advance of the Stanford Twenty20 Super Series - in which they will test themselves against England and play for £100,000 (USD 173,000) prize money against Trinidad and Tobago.

Then in early December, it is off to the sub-continent for the inaugural Indian Premier League Champions League series - an eight-team event in which the winners could pocket up to £10 million (USD 17 million).

New Middlesex captain Udal, 39, has confirmed he wants to keep the job next season - despite having announced his retirement from the game at Hampshire little more than a year ago.

"It's not just the money that matters," he said.

"We are going out to these events as domestic Twenty20 champions and we simply have to do ourselves justice. We must try to win every game.

"It was great to win that title. It was a big success - but apart from the last month in championship cricket, we were largely terrible.

"We came good right at the end - and it looks a half-decent finish, being third (in the LV second division).

"But the stats can't cover the fact we know we were a big disappointment in the championship. We let ourselves down.

Middlesex have lost a few key players from their successful Twenty20 squad which clinched the trophy at the Rose Bowl, Udal's former stamping-ground.

But he maintains: "Our squad is extremely talented, as good as anywhere - with four players winning England spots this winter and Tim Murtagh disgracefully being left out despite 105 wickets.

"But they all know they are no longer regarded as just promising youngsters. They have to produce on a consistent basis, and I fully expect that to happen."

Middlesex, however, have had a request turned down by England to release Andrew Strauss and Owais Shah from preparation for the the first Test in India in December so that they can play for their county in the Twenty20 Champions League.