IT’S been a tough morning for Durham against some impressive Warwickshire bowling and on 116 for seven the lead is 196.

Durham will want to increase that to at least 250, but they haven’t been helped by Phil Mustard getting out in the over before lunch.

His run of rash dismissals continues. The ball has swung all morning and Durham needed their captain to be there this afternoon. But he drove at a ball from Darren Maddy and became the third successive batsman to be caught at first slip by Varun Chopra.

Yesterday everything went to second slip, where Rikki Clarke surprisingly put one down this morning with Ben Stokes on nine.

But Stokes was unable to profit, adding only five before edging Keith Barker to Tim Ambrose.

The batsman earning the greatest credit this morning was nightwatchman Jamie Harrison, who survived for 75 minutes to make 23.

Gordon Muchall spurned the chance to battle through his difficult spell. It seemed things were going his way as he often played and missed then edged just short of Clarke.

But in the day’s seventh over he tried to pull Chris Woakes from off stump and skied a catch to mid-wicket to depart for 17.

Harrison became 19-year-old Tom Milnes’ maiden first-class victim when he edged the all-rounder’s second ball of the day to Chopra.

Dale Benkenstein had a couple of edged fours in his 21 but could do nothing about the snorter from Woakes, which lifted off a length to take the edge at chest height on the way to Chopra.

Paul Collingwood is unbeaten on 13 with Borthwick, Rushworth and Harmison to come.