Rogers pegs back Warwickshire

Derbyshire's new captain Chris Rogers repelled promotion-chasing Warwickshire with a double century as batsmen continued to rule the LV County Championship match at Edgbaston.

Everything that Jonathan Trott achieved in making 181 for the home side was undone when Rogers batted throughout the third day and trimmed his team's deficit to only 14 on closing at 462 for 7.

The Australia left-hander, who replaced Rikki Clarke as skipper this month, completed his fourth century of the season from 151 balls and went on to make an unbeaten 237, his highest score in two spells with the county.

The Rogers show - he hit 32 fours and one six - has created a stalemate on a pitch blunting nine bowlers as Warwickshire again appeared to be running out of steam at a decisive stage of the season.

The erratic, but sometimes hostile, Boyd Rankin extracted some life from the slow surface in his opening spell against his former county but Rogers and Paul Borrington built the platform that Derbyshire needed.

Chris Rogers scored the fifth double hundred of his career

The first pair put on 176, the highest opening partnership in championship cricket this summer, beating 157 by Nottinghamshire's Will Jefferson and Bilal Shafayat, also in the current round of matches, against Sussex at Hove.

The Derbyshire duo stayed together for 51 overs before Borrington, who has gone beyond 50 in each of his three away matches this season, was out for 62, playing across a full toss from Ian Salisbury.

In the first over after lunch, Rogers reached his century with a straight drive for his 16th boundary but then lost another partner when England Under-19 international Dan Redfern (11) fell at second slip off Chris Martin.

With Derbyshire still needing 120 to avoid the follow-on, a useful third-wicket stand cleared off 76 runs before Wavell Hinds, having hit two sixes in making 40, gave his wicket away. A tame shot off Salisbury went straight to long-on and posted Warwickshire's first bowling bonus point in the 80th over.

A no-ball call rescued Rogers on 154 when he edged Rankin to second slip and Warwickshire's frustration only increased as Greg Smith joined the opener in a partnership of 68.

Chris Woakes eventually hit back with two wickets in three balls. Smith was lbw for 27 and Clarke's disappointing season continued when the bowler comfortably held a top-edge in his follow-through.

Tom New (44) and Jonathan Clare (5) were caught behind off Salisbury, but the immovable Rogers safely completed the fifth double hundred of his career and the first by a Derbyshire player against Warwickshire.