Resuming the 2nd day at Edgbaston 21-0, Warwickshire batted onwards, lessening the deficit easily as the Middlesex attack was a bit uninspiring as Varun Chopra and Ian Westwood saw off Tim Murtagh and Toby Roland-Jones as the run rate was good, if not as rapid as Middlesex's, Westwood reaching 50 from 85 balls as the partnership passed 100. Westwood then accelerated after lunch (having not lost a wicket) and Westwood was on 96 before Chopra got to a 113 ball 50 and Westwood getting to 100 in 148 balls, his 2nd hundred against Middlesex in a month. Gareth Berg got the breakthrough, Chopra (56) well caught by Robson with the score at 175, which soon led to a 2nd, Ravi Patel getting his first championship wicket of Will Porterfield (13), caught low down by Dexter's knees at slip, Porterfield thought the ball hadn't carried and hung around for a while before finally trudging off, 194-2.
Jim Troughton smacked Patel for six, and some poor fielding off Crook led to 4 overthrows down to the cover boundary before Westwood was finally out, looping a catch to the sub Tom Scollay at mid-off off Neil Dexter for 120, a great innings, giving his side a good chance of a lead. Darren Maddy fell for 16, slicing to Crook at gully who held on to a great catch, 247-4. The new ball then came and Rikki Clarke went to the 10th ball with it, edging to Adam Rossington for 6 off Roland-Jones. Tim Ambrose went in identical fashion in Roland-Jones's next over for nought, 275-6. As the gloom closed in Roland-Jones bagged a third, Ian Blackwell LBW for 6, and Troughton went to a 106-ball 50 before falling to Murtagh next over, a wild hack to Robson at third slip, 291-8. Play ended to rain and bad light with Warwickshire on 293-8, a lead of six after a great fightback late in the day by Middlesex.
