Ben Aitchison became the first player to take five wickets and score a century for Derbyshire in the same match at Lord’s as the visitors dominated against hosts Middlesex on day two.

Aitchison, who’d come in as nightwatcher the previous evening, reached three figures for the first time in his first-class career, making 112 and sharing a stand of 208 for the sixth wicket with skipper Wayne Madsen – the joint third-highest for any wicket by Derbyshire against their London hosts.

Veteran Madsen (119) also passed three figures for the first time at Lord’s to help the men from the Peak District to a score of 376 a first innings lead of 199. On a dispiriting day for the host bowlers, Ryan Higgins again emerged with credit taking 4 for 98.

Bad light curtailed Middlesex’s second innings after tea but there was still time for Aitchison to snaffle a sixth wicket of the match when Robson edged to slip, before the weather closed in.

Aitchison began the day in company with his fellow nightwatchman Nick Potts, the pair extending their partnership to 40 before Higgins, who’d switched from the Nursery to Pavilion End, brought one back down the slope to uproot Potts’ leg stump.

At that stage, Derbyshire, five wickets down, still trailed by 47, but it would be an age before Middlesex tasted any success again.

Aitchison, with only one first-class 50 to his name and an average of 14, made a mockery of those stats, crunching an early boundary through the covers. He was given the first of two lives on 41 when Caleb Falconer dropped a sharp chance at backward point and he celebrated with successive fours to reach 50.

Unbeaten on 64 at lunch, a scorching square drive got him underway again after the resumption. There was a second life when he was dropped on 80, Falconer again the one to grass the chance, but he moved smoothly through the 90s before finding the fence square of the wicket to reach his milestone on one of cricket’s grandest stages.

Madsen was skittish at first, slashing one over the slips for four, but he soon settled and was powerful through the midwicket region as well as sweeping spinner Zafar Gohar into the Mound Stand for six.

Through the afternoon records tumbled. The previous sixth-wicket partnership record against Middlesex of 148 set last year at Derby was erased and the county’s record for any wicket at Lord’s of 188, a stat which had stood since 1932 soon followed.

By the time Aitchison miscued one to cover off Toby Roland-Jones the stand was 12 short of the record for any wicket against Middlesex.

Wickets tumbled thereafter, Madsen’s fine effort ending at 119 courtesy of a toe-crusher from the otherwise expensive Eathan Bosch which trapped him in front.