Ben Sanderson adopted early within the afternoon session, caught at second slip off an outdoor edge with Northamptonshire nonetheless in arrears, however that rapidly modified as Guthrie launched a fiery salvo towards the seamers.
The left-hander patted his first ball from Sharma over the wicketkeeper’s head for 4 and maintained the offensive, pulling and hooking a string of boundaries earlier than clubbing Toby Roland-Jones for six.
One other top-edged 4 off Helm took Guthrie to a 45-ball half-century and, as soon as he lastly fell to a pointy one-handed catch by Robson at second slip, the house aspect had been nearby of a fourth batting bonus level.
Gross sales, having cracked Luke Hollman for 2 sixes to go 150 for the primary time, duly notched up that collective goal with a boundary off Roland-Jones earlier than holing out to long-off on the stroke of tea.
There have been a few early alarms for Middlesex’s openers once they started their second innings, with De Caires nearly enjoying on and Robson’s edge off Harry Conway shelled at slip by Ricardo Vasconcelos.
However they did sufficient to see off Conway and Sanderson and it was house captain Luke Procter who achieved the breakthrough, profitable an lbw resolution towards De Caires with Middlesex solely midway to wiping out the deficit.
Robson settled into the groove, although, chopping with authority and steering Guthrie to the mid-wicket fence to take his aspect out of the pink, whereas Holden unveiled some elegant strokes to negate the leg-spin of Calvin Harrison.
