County Championship D1, The Oval, day two (stumps): Surrey 359; Middlesex 363-5
Ed Joyce and Jamie Dalrymple shared a fifth-wicket stand of 298 to put Middlesex ahead of Surrey at The Oval.
Joyce edged Bicknell to slip for 123 just before bad light ended day two with the visitors 363-5 in reply to Surrey's first innings 359.
Dalrymple faced 234 balls and hit 29 fours in his unbeaten 182, with his eyes on last year's career best 236.
Middlesex's cause looked bleak after Jimmy Ormond took three wickets to cut them from 23-0 overnight to 62-4.
Ormond had Sven Koenig (nine) caught behind, Ben Hutton out for 15 and Paul Weekes made just seven.
Owais Shah was lbw to Bicknell for a duck before Joyce and Dalrymple turned the innings around.
Surrey: S A Newman, J N Batty (Capt, Wkt), M R Ramprakash, R Clarke,
A D Brown, A J Hollioake, J G E Benning, I D K Salisbury,
M P Bicknell, T J Murtagh, J Ormond.
Middlesex: S G Koenig, B L Hutton, O A Shah (Capt), E C Joyce,
P N Weekes, J W M Dalrymple, D C Nash (Wkt), L Klusener, C B Keegan,
P M Hutchison, M Hayward.
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