Varun Chopra was not the batsman the selectors had come to watch but, with his first Championship century for almost a year, he may have reminded them of his qualities as a potential opening partner to Alastair Cook
Amid the sort of bitterly cold weather in which even Captain Oates wouldn't venture out, Yorkshire's lower order demonstrated the type of grit that can make the difference between winners and losers in a Championship season
Gary Ballance scored an unbeaten half-century as he and Jack Leaning helped revive Yorkshire on a day of interruptions at Edgbaston
