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LV= County Championship Division One, Emirates Old Trafford (day four) |
Northants 342 & 213-5: Gay 61; Hartley 2-70 |
Lancashire 544-7 dec: Bohannon 128, Wells 119, Salt 105; White 3-85 |
Lancashire (12 pts) drew with Northants (9 pts) |
Match scorecard |
Division One’s bottom side Northamptonshire batted for 100 overs to secure a deserved final day draw with Lancashire.
Emilio Gay top scored with 61 to add to his first-innings 144 as he laid the platform for his side’s rearguard action.
Lancashire, who earlier added 46 in three overs to declare on 544-7, sent down more than 70 overs of spin as they drew a seventh game of the season.
The result sees them drop to seventh, while Northants are 25 points adrift of safety.
Lancashire started the day on 498-7 and George Balderson and Tom Hartley did not hang about before captain Keaton Jennings called them in.
When Tom Bailey removed Ricardo Vasconcelos (2) for his 350th first-class wicket and left-arm…
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