LIVE BLOG: Lancashire v Surrey-Day 4
5.00pm, MATCH DRAWN
Lancashire 2nd inns 247-3. Croft 56 Vilas 1
The players shake hands on a draw with Lancashire taking 9 points and Surrey 12 points from the game.
4.50pm
Lancashire 2nd inns 244-3. Remaining overs: 22. Croft 53 Vilas 1
Steven Croft reaches his half century off 187 balls with 4 fours and that has also been a vital, important, innings for Lancashire today.
Well batted Crofty!
4.44pm
Lancashire 2nd inns 238-3. Remaining overs: 23. Croft 48 Vilas 0
Josh Bohannon goes for 108, bowled by Dan Worrall after leaving a delivery that nipped back.
He's getting a deserved standing ovation again, for an excellent, vital, innings.
4.20pm
Lancashire 2nd inns 226-2. Remaining overs: 28. Bohannon 103 Croft 42
Fantastic! Josh Bohannon goes to his century from 173 balls with 14 fours.
This has been a fabulous innings by Bohannon.
3.40pm, TEA Day 4
Lancashire 2nd inns 196-2. Remaining overs: 35.
Bohannon 85 Croft 34
That has been a fabulous effort by Josh Bohannon and Steven Croft who have batted through the whole session to give Lancashire a great chance of coming out of this game with a draw.
3.25pm
Lancashire 2nd inns 182-2 need a further 262 runs from a minimum of 40 overs.
Bohannon 78 Croft 29
Cam Steel comes back into the attack as the sunshine returns to Emirates Old Trafford after a cloudy afternoon.
Bohannon and Croft remain resolute.
3.00pm
Lancashire 2nd inns 167-2 need a further 277 runs from a minimum of 46 overs.
Bohannon 66 Croft 27
The 100 partnership between these two arrives from 220 balls but Josh Bohannon has a scare when he fends at a short ball from Kemar Roche which just lobs over short leg but falls short of square leg. A close call though!
There are some unusual fields being set as Surrey try to engineer a breakthrough; Abbott finished is last over with two fielders on the off-side and seven on the leg side.
The same field is being used by Roche.
2.45pm
Lancashire 2nd inns 160-2 need a further 284 runs from a minimum of 50 overs.
Bohannon 60 Croft 27
This is a great effort by Josh Bohannon and Steven Croft who are resolutely keeping Surrey at bay.
The only slight alarm came when Bohannon glanced Kemar Roach to leg with the ball bouncing just in front of leg slip, but otherwise these two have been solid.
2.25pm
Lancashire 2nd inns 149-2 need a further 295 runs from a minimum of 54 overs.
Bohannon 53 Croft 23
Josh Bohannon reaches fifty off 97 balls, inc 9 fours. Well batted Bosh!
Meanwhile Kemar Roach has returned to the Surrey attack.
2.10pm
Lancashire 2nd inns 133-2 need a further 311 runs from a minimum of 59 overs.
Josh Bohannon twice drives off spinner Cam Steel for four through cover in the same over and reaches the milestone of 3,000 first-class runs, at an average over 43!
1.45pm
Lancashire 2nd inns 116-2 need a further 328 runs from a minimum of 65 overs.
Bohannon 30 Croft 15
A huge session coming up and Surrey skipper Rory Burns opts to start the afternoon with Jordan Clark and Dan Worrall taking the ball.
1.00pm, LUNCH day 4
Lancashire 2nd inns 114-2 need a further 330 runs from a minimum of 67 overs.
Bohannon 29 Croft 14
Josh Bohannon and Steven Croft have steadied matters after the loss of those two quick wickets about an hour ago, Bohannon striking some lovely boundaries, while the visitors will be disappointed they dropped the batter early in his innings.
12.40pm
Lancashire 2nd inns 98-2 need a further 346 runs from a minimum of 71 overs.
Bohannon 18 Croft 9
We've seen a couple more of nicely timed back foot drives from Josh Bohannon as we head towards lunch on this final day.
12.20pm
Lancashire 2nd inns 78-2 need a further 366 runs from a minimum of 76 overs.
Bohannon 6 Croft 4
Drop! Josh Bohannon gets a 'life' after Ollie Pope can't hang on to a diving catch at first slip with Sean Abbott the unlucky bowler.
And, of course, to rub it in Bohannon then square drives Abbott for four.
11.56am
Lancashire 2nd inns 65-2 need a further 395 runs from a minimum of 83.5 overs.
Luke Wells stands in the middle with his head bowed in despair after he pulls a short ball from Kemar Roach straight into the hands of Dan Worrall at fine leg for 45, so two wickets have now gone on the same score and the morning suddenly has a completely different complexion.
11.50am
Lancashire 2nd inns 65-1 need a further 395 runs from a minimum of 84.5 overs.
11.22am
Lancashire 2nd inns 49-0 need a further 395 runs from a minimum of 90 overs.
Wells 37 Jennings 10
I was just writing that it had been a steady start to the day with 5 runs coming off the first 5 overs when Luke Wells produced a beautifully timed flick off his pads off Dan Worrall that sailed over square leg for six!
11.05am
Lancashire 2nd inns 38-0 need a further 406 runs from a minimum of 95 overs.
Wells 29 Jennings 9
Sean Abbott has bowled the first over of the day from the James Anderson End with one run added to the Lancs total, and Dan Worrall is now coming in to start the second over from the Brian Statham End.
10.45am
The start of play is just 15 minutes away and in the meantime here is our match report from yesterday.
9.30am
We have anotherfine, sunny morning at Emirates Old Trafford for this fourth and final day of our LV= County Championship match against Surrey with play starting on time at 11am.
Luke Wells (23 not out) and Keaton Jennings (9 not out) will resume with Lancashire 37-0 and needing a further 407 runs to win from a minimum of 96 overs.
Can they do it? It looks to be a difficult task against a very good Surrey bowling attack.
For context, Lancashire have only scored over 400 in a fourth innings three times, but one of them was against Surrey....
| HIGHEST 4TH INNINGS TOTALS BY LANCASHIRE (400+ RUNS) | |||||
| 464 | v Surrey | Oval | 2007 | Lost by 24 runs | |
| 404-5 | v Hampshire | Southampton | 1910 | Won by 5 wkts | |
| 403-8 | v Nottinghamshire | Old Trafford | 1910 | Won by 2 wkts | |