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The latter was by England team-mate Ollie Robinson as he ran in from mid-on following a top-edge at left-arm seamer Sean Hunt.
Bairstow was quickly into battle. After driving his first ball for four down the ground off Fynn Hudson-Prentice, Robinson thought he had him caught behind on four.
It seemed as if the pair had words, as they did again the following ball when Bairstow missed an attempted expansive drive and stomped down the pitch to talk to his batting partner as Robinson stared.
Both men are aiming to rekindle Test careers which stalled following England’s New Year tour to India. And there was no doubt Bairstow won this battle.
Yorkshire, who have had the best of batting conditions, could go on and claim victory in the war with the Division Two leaders over the next couple of days.
But Robinson took 2-57 from his 21.5 overs – including being driven by Bairstow for successive boundaries – while Bairstow also lofted Hudson-Prentice’s medium pace over mid-on’s head twice and pulled Hunt for six two balls after Robinson’s drop.
While the focus was on Bairstow, who last posted a red-ball fifty in the final Test of last summer’s Ashes at The Oval in late July, Luxton was just as good but in more watchful fashion during his 130 balls – and showed his patient side when he did not score in the afternoon’s opening 50 minutes, stuck on 27.
Report supplied by ECB Reporters’ Network
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