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Warwickshire 469 for 5 (122 overs). Troughton 221, Clarke 13.
Troughton and Ambrose added 335 in 81 overs, displacing Messrs Lara and Piper from the record books, before Ambrose inside-edged Adams on to his pad and the ball trickled on to the stumps.
Ambrose hit 153 from 240 balls with 17 fours and his body language when he got out suggested he had fancied quite a few more.
Tremlett has just got a delivery to rear past Clarke's outside-edge. This is no shirt-front.
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I think it is perhaps for the best that the Troughton-Ambrose union has displaced the Piper-Lara partnership in the record books. This one was made in a proper game, while Piper-Lara, while entirely worthy, was really just part of a record-breaking exhibition, albeit a particularly noteworthy one.
Anyway, here's a quiz to pass the time until the declaration. What is the significance, record-wise, of this composite Warwickshire XI?
Knight, Twose, Lara, WG Quaife, FR Foster, Ambrose, Dougie Brown, Tony Frost, NMK Smith, Bill Bourne, Alan Richardson.
Did they all take part in record partnerships against Sussex?
No, but both Brown and Frost owe their position in this list to innings that were part of 289-run seventh-wicket partnerships against Sussex, as it happens.