County Championship D1, Old Trafford, day four: Lancashire 354 & 41-2 drew with Nottinghamshire 275
Lancashire 11pts, Nottinghamshire 9
The draw which seemed a certainty after Friday's washout duly arrived on another gloomy afternoon in Manchester, when more rain prevented a full day's play.
Peter Martin's first game of the season ended in a five-wicket haul for the right-arm seamer.
He single-handedly removed the talented middle-order of Chris Cairns, Bilal Shafayat and Chris Read.
The tail wagged to ensure Notts would not be embarrassd - they managed just 79 runs fewer than Lancashire's first-innings total.
And in the home team's second innings, Greg Smith earned himself two cheap wickets before the rains came again.
After getting far the better of a draw against champions Surrey at the Oval in the first round of matches, Lancashire are still winless despite impressing in most quarters of the game.
Lancashire: JM Anderson, G Chapple, MJ Chilton, A Flintoff, WK Hegg (capt), SG Law, MB Loye, PJ Martin, CP Schofield, IJ Sutcliffe, AJ Swann.
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