Lancashire v Yorkshire: Scores and match report

Match scores (Old Trafford)

Yorkshire 1st inns: 448-8d (Leaning 118, Brooks 109*, Ballance 74; Bailey 4-116, McLaren 2-60)
Yorkshire 2nd inns:  177-1 (Handscomb 101*, Lees 62; Kerrigan 1-65)

Lancashire 1st inns: 432 (Chanderpaul 106, McLaren 84, Kerrigan 59; Bresnan 3-69, Rafiq 3-128)

Match drawn

Day four report

Lancashire and Yorkshire had to settle for a Roses Specsavers County Championship draw at Emirates Old Trafford.

The Red Rose side ended Yorkshire's chances of a second win in four matches when they avoided the follow-on by reaching 299 during the early stages of day four as they advanced from 254 for six overnight.

Ryan McLaren hit 84 and Stephen Parry 39 as they completed a seventh-wicket partnership of 70 to steer their side to safety.

Lancashire, who were 39 for three on day three, ended their first innings reply to 448 for eight declared by being bowled out for 432 shortly after lunch, including eight not out for injured James Anderson.

Australian overseas batsman Peter Handscomb later hit his first Championship century for Yorkshire in their second-innings 177 for one from 36 overs.

Despite being under pressure through the latter stages of day two and the majority of day three, Lancashire ended up with 10 points to Yorkshire's nine.

And Steven Croft's side remain unbeaten in four matches this season, although they have still not beaten Yorkshire in Championship cricket in 2011.

They will hope to rectify that statistic in the return clash at Headingley, starting on June 2. Both sides sit out the next round of fixtures.

This match was expected to be played on a pitch which would deteriorate enough to bring spin bowlers into things during its second half.

But that was not the case, with only 43 overs bowled on Saturday's second day.

That said, Yorkshire off-spinner Azeem Rafiq picked up the two wickets to fall before lunch.

He had Parry caught at short-leg one-handed by Jack Leaning as Lancashire fell to 317 for seven in the 106th over.

They had avoided the follow-on in the 103rd over, the ninth of the morning.

Rafiq then had McLaren caught behind reverse sweeping in the 114th as Lancashire fell to 344 for eight.

South African overseas all-rounder McLaren had hit 12 fours in 224 balls at the crease, but he fell short of a seventh career century.

Yorkshire continued to be frustrated by ninth-wicket pair Tom Bailey and Simon Kerrigan, who shared 51 unbroken inside 11 overs before lunch to take the score to 395 for eight.

Tim Bresnan wrapped up the Lancashire innings shortly after the break when he trapped Bailey lbw for 40 and bowled Kerrigan for 59 off 63 balls, only the spinner's second first-class fifty.

Yorkshire began their second innings with a lead of 16 and 58 overs left in the day.

Out-of-form Adam Lyth fell for nine in the ninth over, bowled by a big turning delivery from Kerrigan as he shuffled across and lost his leg stump.

Handscomb hit 43 of the first 50 he shared with Alex Lees and reached his second Championship fifty of the season off 34 balls, looking particularly dominant through the covers.

Lees offered a sharp return catch to Liam Livingstone on 44 before heaving a juicy full toss from the part-time spinner over long-on for six as he reached his second fifty of the campaign.

Handscomb slog-swept Croft for six in the last over of the match to move to 99 and reached three figures off 76 balls with 12 fours included.

The pair shared 153 unbroken inside 28 overs for the second wicket. Lees finished 62 not out.

Day three report

Jack Brooks and Shivnarine Chanderpaul both scored Roses centuries on day three at Emirates Old Trafford as Yorkshire's bid for a second Specsavers County Championship victory of the season was held up after lunch.

Yorkshire fats bowler Brooks advanced from 94 overnight to 109 not out, posting his maiden first-class ton, as the visitors declared their first innings on 448 for eight during the early stages of the day.

Brooks, a hugely popular figure throughout the county circuit who is playing his first game of the season following injury, kissed the White Rose badge on his helmet and punched the air after flicking his 146th ball to short fine-leg off Simon Kerrigan.

By contrast, Lancashire's West Indian great Chanderpaul has now reached 100 75 times in first-class cricket.

His 106 off 199 balls helped Lancashire recover from 39 for three from late morning onwards, with Brooks making the initial breakthrough when he uprooted Haseeb Hameed's off stump for a duck.

Having reached close at 264 for six from 94 overs, Lancashire are still 35 runs short of the 299 follow-on target.

Brooks lost eighth-wicket partner Jack Leaning for 118 to Tom Bailey five balls into the day before he picked off the six runs he needed in singles.

He then slog-swept Kerrigan over mid-wicket for his fifth six immediately before the declaration.

Then, the 32-year-old was handed the new ball in place of in-form Ben Coad, and it was a decision which reaped reward when Hameed played down the wrong line to leave the hosts at 10 for one in the fourth.

Hameed scored two hundreds in this fixture last year, but he is yet to post a fifty in the Championship this season.

Liam Livingstone followed cheaply to Ryan Sidebottom, Yorkshire's other returning seamer following injury, when he got a leading edge to second slip in the seventh.

And when Steven Croft edged Tim Bresnan to first slip at the end of the 13th over, Lancashire were 39 for three.

But that was where Chanderpaul intervened to boost Lancashire's hopes of survival.

Although he lost Alex Davies for 39 to the second ball of the afternoon, caught behind trying to leave Sidebottom alone as the score fell to 68 for four, Chanderpaul found allies in South Africans Dane Vilas and Ryan McLaren either side of tea.

He shared 67 for the fifth wicket with Vilas, who made 29 before he edged Azeem Rafiq behind - 135 for five after 42 overs.

And then came the Red Rose's key partnership with overseas all-rounder McLaren as they shared 112 inside 48 overs.

McLaren reached 50 off 153 balls, also bringing up the century stand in the 84th over, before Chanderpaul reached his ton off 184 balls with 10 fours and a pulled six over mid-wicket off Leaning's off-spin.

The 42-year-old had offered a tough chance to Brooks running back from mid-off against Rafiq on 44, but he survived to confirm back-to-back Championship hundreds after his 182 at Surrey last month.

Yorkshire were boosted late in the day when Coad bowled Chanderpaul around his legs as the score fell to 247 for six in the 90th

McLaren will begin day four on 63 not out.

Day two report

Jack Leaning posted his first hundred in the Specsavers County Championship since June 2015 as Yorkshire dominated a rain-affected second day of the Roses match at Emirates Old Trafford.

Only 43 overs of play were possible as the White Rose advanced their first innings from 251 for six overnight to 421 for seven, including an unbeaten career-best 94 off 135 balls for Jack Brooks.

The pair even shared an unbroken eighth-wicket partnership of 165 inside 40 overs, a Roses record for either side.

Leaning finished the day with 118 not out off 288 balls.

Six overs were bowled during the first half-hour of the day but there was then a long stoppage before play restarted at 4.15pm with 37 remaining.

Leaning reached 50 in the latter stages of day one before Andrew Hodd departed in the early stages of day two to end a seventh-wicket stand of 78.

Hodd had posted a well-made 44 with five fours in 71 balls but he played on to seamer Tom Bailey and lost his off stump as the score fell to 256 for seven in the 100th over, Lancashire's only success of the day.

Leaning and Brooks, playing his first match of the season following a calf injury picked up in mid-March, later took Yorkshire beyond the 400 mark.

However, they did not manage to secure a third batting bonus point for passing 300 before the 110-over cut off point.

Following an exceptional first half of the 2015 Championship campaign, which yielded three hundreds, Leaning has struggled for runs and, as a result, a regular place in the side.

But the 23-year-old battled hard here on a slow pitch against a tidy home attack minus their spearhead James Anderson due to a groin injury.

Having reached 50 off 146 balls, including two sixes, he later brought up three figures off 260 in his 360th minute at the crease.

Anderson, meanwhile, failed to take the field on day two and will be sent for a scan on his right groin on Monday.

He will not bowl again in this match, but he may bat if needed.

That left Lancashire with four specialist bowlers, with Ryan McLaren and Stephen Parry their standouts.

Brooks lofted Simon Kerrigan down the ground for his only six in a 100-ball fifty in the 128th over of the innings before Leaning reached three figures, including six fours and two sixes, in the next.

With the field now widely spread and Lancashire's attack looking tired, Brooks slog-swept Parry and hit Liam Livingstone over long-on for his second and third sixes as Yorkshire approached 400 in the latter stages of play.

He later pulled Steven Croft's medium pace over deep backward square for his fourth maximum to move into the nineties as Yorkshire scored 170 for the loss of one wicket in the day.

Day one report

Lancashire and England are sweating on the fitness of Jimmy Anderson after he pulled up with a groin injury early in the Roses match at Emirates Old Trafford.

Anderson had helped the hosts make an excellent start to this Specsavers County Championship fixture with a catch at third slip and the wicket of Alex Lees as Yorkshire slipped to nine for two inside five overs.

But the 34-year-old seamer then had to leave the field clutching his right groin midway through his sixth over and he did not return as Yorkshire closed on 251 for six from 96 overs.

Lancashire coach Glen Chapple revealed that Anderson will be assessed on Saturday and said: "Jimmy's got a tight groin. He felt some pain and came off with it.

"He's had ice on it all afternoon and I think he will be assessed in the morning. Fingers crossed he won't be feeling it, but we'll have to see.

"He walked off alright, but we'll see how he is tomorrow. If he's still feeling it, he will probably need a scan."

England's all-time leading wicket-taker is not due to be back in action for his country until the first Investec Test against South Africa at Lord's on July 6.

Anderson had been scheduled to play in Lancashire's next four championship matches before joining England for the start of the Test summer

The immediate concern was Lancashire's as they had to make do with two specialist seamers and two specialist spinners for the rest of the day.

But Ryan McLaren and Stephen Parry ensured they did not miss Anderson too badly by sharing three wickets.

Yorkshire's in-form captain Gary Ballance was again the standout performer with 74, taking his tally of 50-plus scores this season to a remarkable 10 from 15 innings.

Jack Leaning also hit an unbeaten 54 from 175 balls and Andrew Hodd was not out on 41 at stumps.

Ballance hit 11 fours in his 163-ball knock and has now scored 1,101 runs in all cricket this season.

Yorkshire elected to bat upon winning the toss but they were under the cosh quickly against a Lancashire side also missing seamer Kyle Jarvis with a broken thumb and all-rounder Jordan Clark with a back problem.

Adam Lyth edged Tom Bailey to Anderson at third slip in the fourth over and the England paceman then bowled Lees as he offered no stroke to an in-swinger in the next, meaning Yorkshire had lost their first two wickets in three balls.

Ballance found an ally in Australian overseas batsman Peter Handscomb as they began the recovery against a tidy Lancashire attack.

They shared 81 inside 33 overs either side of lunch for the third wicket.

Ballance reached 50 off 107 balls just before the lunch interval but he lost Handscomb shortly afterwards as he was trapped lbw by McLaren for 29 as the score fell to 90 for three in the 37th over.

Ballance was next to go when he miscued a widish Bailey delivery to mid-off as the partnership with Leaning fell two short of 50 to leave Yorkshire at 138 for four.

Leaning and Tim Bresnan both hit the left-arm spin of Simon Kerrigan down the ground for sixes as the visitors reached tea at 155 for four.

McLaren gained further reward for his endeavour shortly after tea when, with 159 on the board for Yorkshire in the 67th over, he bowled Bresnan with one that kept low and nipped back.

Azeem Rafiq was put down on one by Liam Livingstone at slip in McLaren's next over but he pulled Parry to mid-wicket as Yorkshire fell to 178 for six.

With Leaning approaching his first half century of the season in either the Championship or the Royal London Cup, Lancashire delayed taking the second new ball until the 86th over.

Unfortunately for them, the tactic did not work as Leaning and Hodd enjoyed Yorkshire's most productive period of the day.

Leaning reached 50 off 146 balls with a pulled six off Bailey, and Hodd will hope to join him in the morning as they shared an unbroken partnership of 73.