JONNY Bairstow hit a brilliant hundred to help Yorkshire take a first-innings lead of 17 on the second afternoon of their LV= County Championship match at Headingley.
Bairstow made 125 not out as Yorkshire extended their lunch score of 165-8 to 229 all out as first Steve Patterson and then Jack Brooks offered essential support.
Patterson made 12 before he was bowled by Toby Roland-Jones but Brooks stayed with Bairstow for nearly an hour as a further 59 runs were added for the last wicket, the largest partnership of the innings.
Bairstow reached his century off 161 balls in 234 minutes and when Brooks was caught at the wicket by John Simpson off Ollie Rayner for six, the wicketkeeper-batsman’s 125 runs had been scored off 187 balls with ten fours and four sixes.
By tea though, Middlesex openers Joe Burns and Sam Robson had responded well to make 45 for no wicket in what is proving to be a fascinating Division One match.
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