County Championship: Burgess century helps Bears get proper on prime in opposition to Essex

Bears centurion Michael Burgess shared a stand of 113 for the fifth wicket with Matt Lamb

LV= County Championship Division One, Edgbaston, Birmingham (day two)

Essex 168: Westley 80; Briggs 4-31, Hannon-Dalby 3-43 & 0-1: Hannon-Dalby 1-0

Warwickshire 385: Burgess 170, Lamb 71, Sibley 33; Steketee 4-130, S Cook 3-72

Essex (2 pts) trail Warwickshire (6 pts) by 217 runs with nine wickets remaining

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Warwickshire wicketkeeper Michael Burgess hit his second big century in successive innings at Edgbaston to help bat the Bears into a position of real strength against Essex.

Following his 178 in the reigning county champions’ opening game against Surrey 12 days ago, Burgess made 170 out of a first-innings total of 385.

That earned the hosts a whopping 217-run first-innings lead.

Oliver Hannon-Dalby then removed Nick Browne for a seven-ball duck.

After taking three first-innings wickets, and then again impressing with the bat, Hannon-Dalby struck with the first ball of the last over of the day in…

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