Roses encounter drawn after heavy rain.

The match was abandoned after heavy rain hit Headingley throughout the morning.

Old rivals were made to settle for a rain-affected draw after the weather prevented any play on the final day of Lancashire's encounter with Yorkshire.

Lancashire are now unbeaten in their last nine LV County Championship matches at Headingley and entered the final day with a narrow edge after they had claimed a first innings lead of 82 runs, despite Tim Bresnan's late heroics on day three.

This draw leaves Yorkshire in second place, whilst their Roses-rivals sit one place above relegation after drawing their third match this season.

Lancashire: 325 (Horton 66; Smith 54;Brooks 5/90) and 48/3 (Bresnan 3/9). 
Yorkshire: 243 (Gale 95*; Smith 5/49)

Points: Yorkshire 9, Lancashire 11.

Man of the match:

Tom Smith's season is going from strength to strength and this match demonstrated the all-rounder's value in the Lancashire set-up. After falling to 183-6, Lancashire's first innings was in danger of being cut short, but his fourth half-century of the season led a late-order surge as Glen Chapple and Kyle Hogg helped the visitors to their highest first-innings total of the season.

With the ball he was equally destructive and his second five-wicket haul of the season gave Lancashire a useful lead of 82 runs, one which may have developed into a run chase for Yorkshire if the weather had not intervened. Smith now has 20 wickets, making him the highest wicket-taker for Lancashire so far this season. He has also accumulated 355 runs, which puts him in second place behind Paul Horton (388).