Chris Rogers hit his highest score for Derbyshire to lead

his side to safety on the third day of the LV County

Championship match against Warwickshire at Edgbaston.

The Australian was 237 not out at the close in a score of

462-7, trailing Warwickshire by 14 in their first innings, and

he needs only 38 more runs to beat George Davidson's highest

ever individual score by a Derbyshire player.

Davidson made 274 for the county at Old Trafford in 1896 and

the record has stodd ever since.

Rogers and Paul Borrington also set the new highest

first-wicket partnership in the Championship this season when

they overhauled the 157 set by Nottinghamshire's Will

Jefferson and Bilal Shafayat only a day earlier.

They took their stand on to 176 before Borrington was lbw to

Ian Salisbury a couple of minutes before lunch. Borrington had

made 62 with 10 fours off 160 balls, his third Championship

half-century of the campaign.

Dan Redfern made only 11 before being caught at second slip by

Darren Maddy off Chris Martin and Wavell Hinds added an

entertaining 40 before he was caught at long on by Chris Woakes

off Ian Salisbury.

Rogers had a life on 154 when he was caught at second slip by

Maddy off a Boyd Rankin no ball but then passed the 156 he

scored against Durham in 2004 as his best for the county.

He passed 10,000 career first-class runs on 183 and now has the

chance to make Derbyshire history on the final day.