Ollie Price and the weather combined to frustrate promotion-chasing Middlesex on the second day of their County Championship Division Two match at Lord's. Right-hander Price made a gutsy 56 not out, his fifth first-class score of 50 or more this season, as the visitors battled to 154-5, 223 behind, in the 41.4 overs possible between bad light and rain.
However, Price's grit came in the wake of Middlesex skipper Toby Roland-Jones' burst of 3-12 in 16 balls either side of lunch and served to take the men from the west country from 74-4 to calmer waters, albeit needing a further 74 to save the follow-on.
Roland-Jones had taken 3-56 and Ryan Higgins 2-47 when bad light, followed by rain, drove the players off for the second and final time at 15:15 BST. The start was delayed by 40 minutes and batting proved hazardous from the off under floodlights.
Roland-Jones and Higgins constantly challenged both edges in ideal seam conditions, with bad light driving the players off for an early lunch.
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