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Gloucestershire – who included 19-year-old debutant Archie Bailey among a seam quartet – were immediately rewarded for opting to bowl as Singh Dale's opening effort seared back down the slope and crashed into Sam Robson's middle stump. The lively Bailey, who entered the attack as early as the sixth over, might also have struck with his first delivery which found the edge of Holden's bat, but dropped fractionally short of slip. However, Middlesex gradually settled down and Mark Stoneman raised the tempo with a flurry of cover boundaries, advancing to 42 before he attempted to hook Tom Price and top-edged it to provide Bracey with a routine catch.
That ended Stoneman's partnership of 71 with Holden, who reached lunch one short of a half-century as he and Leus du Plooy kept the...
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